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• The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Happiness

• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Say

• My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Wife
  • Serious
  • Divorce

• Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Family
  • Health
  • Violence

• I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Debate

• Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Three

• Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Good
  • Question
  • Heaven

• After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Relationship
  • Question
  • Media

• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • True
  • Idea
  • Just

• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Everyone
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Look
  • Forward
  • Sure

• In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Character
  • Small
  • Yourself

• The verdict of the world is conclusive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Verdict
  • Conclusive

• Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Creative

• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Career
  • Myself

• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Success
  • Internet
  • Nobody

• The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Power
  • Together

• I do not know how history will judge me, but let me say that I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to transform the Tatas from a patriarchal concern to an institutional enterprise. It would, therefore, be a mark of failure on my part if it were perceived that Ratan Tata epitomises the Group's success. What I have done is establish growth mechanisms, play down individuals and play up the team that has made the companies what they are. I, for one, am not the kind who loves dwelling on the 'I'. If history remembers me at all, I hope it will be for this transformation.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Success

• We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Country
  • Support
  • Speak

• Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bad
  • Future
  • Past

• I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Words
  • Alone
  • Moral

• Publicity is the engine of politics

  

  H. W. Brands
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