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• We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Long
  • Change

• I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Giving
  • Creative
  • Act

• It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Long
  • May
  • Financial

• It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Character
  • Movie

• Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Feeling
  • Energy
  • Body

• When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Clothes
  • Uncomfortable

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Politics

• My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Me

• I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Important
  • School

• For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Great
  • Know
  • Proud

• Whenever you meet anyone, no matter how briefly, do you acknowledge their being by giving them your full attention, or are you reducing them to a means to an end, a mere function or role. What is the quality of your relationship with the cashier at the supermarket, the parking attendant, the repair man, the customer?

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Giving
  • Relationship
  • Attention

• Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The cypress stood up like a churchThat night we felt our love would hold,And saintly moonlight seemed to searchAnd wash the whole world clean as gold;The olives crystallized the vales'Broad slopes until the hills grew strong:The fireflies and the nightingalesThrobbed each to either, flame and song.The nightingales, the nightingales.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Up
  • World
  • Song

• Praxagora: Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Money
  • She

• Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Wise

• I have sinned against you, my Lord.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart

• From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

  

  Philip Baker Hall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

  

  George Chakiris
  • Why
  • Failing
  • Greek

• Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Business
  • Conflict
  • Him

• Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Convince
  • Diseases
  • Patients

• The Italian economy has been held back for decades.

  

  Mario Monti
  • Italian

• Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

  

  David Walton
  • Funny

• This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto