William Gurney Benham Quotes
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately.
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We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.
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Life has not been boring for me.
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Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
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I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.
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These are the moments when the powerful mind or the forceful character feels the ferment of the times, when his thoughts quicken, and when he can inject into the uncertainties of others the creative ideas which will strengthen them with purpose. At such a moment the man who can direct others, in thought or in action, can remake the world.
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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
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No Dutch, no English, and therefore no planters, no coolie labour, no cash crops, no systematic exhaustion of our soil. Also no whisky, no Calvinism, no syphilis, no foreign administrators. We were left to go our own way and take responsibility for our own affairs.
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While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.
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Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
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I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
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The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men as to the points most needful to salvation.
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By losing present time, we lose all time.
