Bill Gates Quotes
It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda Gates and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.
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L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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I've never had an organization come to me and say, 'Eventually, we're going to take care of you. I've never had anyone say, 'I'm going to take care of you.' Why shouldn't I be happy? That's a first for me in 17 years.
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I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.
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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
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If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.
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It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
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As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.
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I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.
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Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.
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More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.
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The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.
