Allen Neuharth Quotes
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are bad, and some are very bad indeed.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.
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I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.
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Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
