Wolfgang Sachs Quotes
The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
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Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ opens the path to what we may become.
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It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
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I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.
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I'm a fairy. I'd come and hear, "How was your day, honey?" And I'd be like, "I was a fairy. I don't know."
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All we can do is evaluate what we see in practice.
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We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.
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Obstacles come to instruct, not obstruct.
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If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)
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In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'
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I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.
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Though the passion still flutters and flickers, it never got into our knickers.
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.
