Hassanal Bolkiah Quotes
The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.
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I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.
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At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
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I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
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You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.
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Wittgenstein's ruler: 'Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.' (page 224)
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A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
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A healthy heart is the key to longevity.
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In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.
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I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it.
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Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians.
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One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I'd turn up my nose and tell them I wasn't about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.
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I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.
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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
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Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.
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I will very happily grow old in the comedic world of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, if they would keep having me over and over.
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We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.
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It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.
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Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.
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It isn't hard to stay in shape.
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When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.
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Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
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The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.
