Joseph Stalin Quotes
Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
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Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
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There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
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I'm somebody who works within Cambodia, with Cambodians. I work alongside the artists and society to work from within, so that is the focus, and from that I hope everybody who believes in democracy, in certain freedoms, will get louder, will grow their voices.
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Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
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You have to be willing to give it your all and sacrifice to make your dreams come true.
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We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.
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I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago.
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Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
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what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.
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He [the Statist] is unmoved by reason, evidence, and history.
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'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude.
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.
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If you simply accept life as it is, you will be a lot more fulfilled and increasingly worry free.
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I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
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A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.
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A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.
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The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
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Touch makes it possible to live in a body that can move in response to being moved.
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When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.
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Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.
