Azim Premji Quotes
Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Make the film that you love. When you find a film that you love, every molecule of your being will be moving in the direction of making the best film you can possibly make. This should be your default mode of operation.
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My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. Children are naive - they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.
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Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.
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The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.
