Karl G. Maeser Quotes
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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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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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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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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.
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It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.
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There are programs that don't work.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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I don't really have an allowance. When I want to get something I just have to ask my mom.
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He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.
