Ratan Tata Quotes
If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
Sam Houston
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R. D. Laing
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
Laura Robson
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
Calvin Klein
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie
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Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it.
Jack Canfield
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
Mahalia Jackson
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'For a word to be spoken,' Ged answered slowly, 'there must be silence. Before, and after.' Then all at once he got up, saying, 'I have no right to speak of these things. The word that was mine to say I said wrong. It is better that I keep still; I will not speak again. Maybe there is no true power but the dark.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
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This done, he felt a little-not much, but a little-better. Before, he would have gladly murdered Beach and James and danced on their graves. Now, he would have been satisfied with straight murder.
P. G. Wodehouse
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El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.
Antonio Porchia
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.
Douglas Wilson
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People forget at the time that 'The Simpsons' started out, it was controversial - the fact that they said 'hell' and 'damn' in a cartoon was a lot. America was in an uproar.
Eric Andre
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I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.
Chely Wright
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The best relationships are when you both want to make each other happy - you buy the groceries, I do the dishes.
Lyndsy Fonseca
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I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.
Chris Lilley
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I wish we had fewer bad words in 'Jump Street.' That would probably be better.
Phil Lord
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
Petrarch
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I have the backbone of an eel.
Betty White
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That's not right. That's not even wrong.
Wolfgang Pauli
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Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.
Peter Thiel
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If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.
Ratan Tata