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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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.
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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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The sky isn't falling. We're not going to have more meteors hit because of sequestration.
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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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Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
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Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.
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Something is always simple until you try it.
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I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.
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Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.
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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.
