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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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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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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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
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I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.
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We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.
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'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.
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The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
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Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.
