Oliver DeMille Quotes
Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.
Quotes to Explore
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
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My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.
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For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'.
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Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have this natural reluctance to learn the quirky ways of the natives in faraway lands.
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There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
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Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.
