Bill Gates Quotes
We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
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We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
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We shared our father with the world.
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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.
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Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome.
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It feels so good to tell the truth.
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When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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I am obsessed with John Mayer. I love him. I just think he's so talented. I have his documentary in my iTunes. I watch it all the time.
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Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.
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Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!
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As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.
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Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.
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If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.
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We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail; it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.
