Earl Warren Quotes
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.
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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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It's time to penetrate and find somebody else if that's not the shot you're making or you're comfortable with. You have to know that.
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
