William Feather Quotes
Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
William Feather
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To reap this demographic dividend, we need to enable the youth to acquire skills required to get the job or become self-employed.
Chanda Kochhar
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I would be amazed if Oracle does not buy NetSuite.
Aneel Bhusri
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N.B. This is rote sarcastikul.
Charles Farrar Browne
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Idries Shah
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All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.
Victor Papanek
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Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.
Andre Bazin
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The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
Alex Trebek
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
Sara Willis
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We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.
Ian Astbury
The Cult
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President Reagan is a lot like E.T. He's cute, he's lovable, and he knows nothing about how Americans live.
Elayne Boosler
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.
Chris Marker
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For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.
Vittorio Alfieri
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All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
Baruch Spinoza
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My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.
Roger Federer
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I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.
Paul Newman
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Without a Palestinian partner, Israel needs to take the initiative itself.
Avi Dichter
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Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it.
William Feather
