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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To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
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If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
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I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
