Paul Graham Quotes
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
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George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.
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We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.
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What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us?
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We've always been a band that questions things.
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Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century - photos, videos, and birthday wishes.
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What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
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The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.
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Thanks for the information about what we call business.
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Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Some people have just got a capacity for creativity that's unbelievable!
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You know your business model is broken when you're suing your customers.
