Bill Gates Quotes
We US are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
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Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?
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It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.
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There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.
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With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.
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Sting is a father figure to us all.
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
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There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.
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Often what I need is even a darker darkness.
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We US are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.
