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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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time.
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The history of the United States is the story of people of many backgrounds.
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Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about.
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If you always have consciousness of gender equality at the heart of your policies, then you will have much more democratic, much more sustainable development.
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The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.
