Bob Goff Quotes
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.
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I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.
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The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
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Expose yourself to the products and promotions of other manufacturers, and your own field of new ideas will greatly increase.
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Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.
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Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system; it's not just development of a better Bitcoin financial system, and so we want to back the best teams, who have the biggest ideas, unique solutions to big problems.
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Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.
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Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
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Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.
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Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
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I'll just let time happen. I don't have to articulate what may be or what may not be. I don't even do that to myself.
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Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.
