N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes
I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski
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Sometimes kids ask how I've been able to write so many books. The answer is simple: one word at a time. Which is another good lesson, I think. You don't have to do everything at once. You don't have to know how every story is going to end. You just have to take that next step, look for that next idea, write that next word.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
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The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.
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I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
