Nathan Eldon Tanner Quotes
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
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The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.
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Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.
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It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
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I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.
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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.
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I try to do a variety of physical activities. I spin, take classes at Barry's Boot Camp, go to the gym, use home DVD's of ChaLEAN Extreme workouts, which I think are brilliant, and I run around after my three girls. Also, let's be honest. The amount of laundry I do is an exercise in and of itself!
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I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.
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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
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Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things.
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I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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The main thing I wanted was to manage.
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Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy.
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It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
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Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
