Beryl Markham Quotes
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.
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What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
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I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.
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Perfection itself is imperfection.
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Man makes god in his own image.
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It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.
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When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
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The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
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Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
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It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
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In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system.
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I didn't fly on a plane until I was 19.
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To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.
