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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How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
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We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.
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I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that parenting is one thing - and when parenting is something completely different - that's what makes them unhappy.
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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.
