Alastair Mackenzie Quotes
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Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.
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Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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I propose to build for eternity.
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Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
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A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.
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Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.
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I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?
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Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
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It's a start and hopefully we can build off that. But we're capable of more.
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Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses.
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Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.
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Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.
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The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
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It is improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization. When you try to be top dong, you don't create loyalty. It you can't give credit (and take blame), you will drown in you inability to inspire.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.
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The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.
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You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.
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I try to build courses for the most enjoyment by the greatest number.
