Bill Gates Quotes
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.
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That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.
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I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
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In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
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There is nothing important except people. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.
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I want to make a poem of my life.
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I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
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'There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.'
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I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.
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My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.
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Bourgeois society continuously brings forth the Jew from its own entrails.
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We want a Colorado that works for everybody.
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Home is your sanctuary.
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Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
