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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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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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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There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.
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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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The air is crowded with birds - beautiful, tender, intelligent birds - to whom life is a song.
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Going a little further into the future, we'll start literally connecting to machines. Some of my colleagues at MIT here - some of them are working on a neural mesh that connects directly to your brain, and they've already done it with some disabled people and allowed them to move objects just by thinking.
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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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In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.
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The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.
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The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success.
