Harold MacMillan Quotes
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
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I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.
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To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
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Now that doctors have stopped making house calls, lots of patients now have to die without their help.
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Anything that works well or has long-term success is never done quickly.
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With Photosynth, all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
