Karl G. Maeser Quotes
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
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It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
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The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.
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There are programs that don't work.
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I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.
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When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
