George Gilder Quotes
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
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I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having 'too much' sex. At what point does a 'healthy' amount become 'too much'? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their cases the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such.
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“Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses; which revived her spirits a litle.”
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I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
