Elisabeth Murdoch Quotes
It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
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When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.
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I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.
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Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'
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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
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If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.
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I'm not a player; I'm just a lovely guy, and I can show a girl a good time.
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I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
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I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
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...the question now was...whether that beautiful fabric the English constitution...was to be maintained in that freedom...for which blood had been spilt; or whether we were to submit to that system of despotism, which had so many advocates in this country.
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Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.
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It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.
