Bill Gates Quotes
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
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It certainly lit our fire a little bit. It certainly made us appreciate what we have.
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What is love, if not the abandonment of all sanity, all dignity?
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We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."
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If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?
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California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.
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I have to be involved in negotiations because players have to buy into me and what I want from them if they join my club, so all managers need to be fully involved in transfers, that's for sure.
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In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.
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I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine side for women coming out won't be such a burden, in a way. Just be ourselves.
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I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?
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No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.
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People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.
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What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.
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Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
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The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.
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The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.
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I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
