Walter Munk Quotes
People should treat the oceans like we do anything else that we care about - with consideration, with care, and affection. That's it. For that we must educate.

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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.
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In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the standard to which I write, because it was what I've experienced over my time.
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Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.
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It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.
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Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
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At best, policy is about protecting the rights of all workers while also driving fair competition and enabling opportunity. It is about making the future work for everyone. At worst, policy tries to resist change and creates uneven playing fields that eventually hurt everyone.
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Compared to the way in which final causality has – in actual practice, if not in theory and rhetoric – maintained its grip on biological thinking, the Darwinian “revolution” is a trivial blip on the continued silent and unacknowledged hegemony of Aristotle.
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I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.
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People should treat the oceans like we do anything else that we care about - with consideration, with care, and affection. That's it. For that we must educate.