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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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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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 book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a collection of text, organized in one of a variety of ways. You could say that words printed on paper and bound between cloth covers will someday be obsolete. But if and when that day comes, there will still be a thing called books.
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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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A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.
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The word 'yoga' means union. It's like everything in yoga yokes or unites you to something higher, the highest part of yourself.
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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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People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial ladder. They probably feel proud of themselves for what they've achieved, but I'm proud of the fact that I've done very little - and hence have little to worry about - and I've still got somewhere.
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The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.
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There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
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Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom immediately appears... and the all-discerning Fivefold Eye opens wide.
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Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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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.
