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• Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Winning
  • Seed

• Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Better
  • Now
  • Vietnam

• This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

  

  Pat Boone
  • School
  • May
  • High

• Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

  

  Vanity
  • People
  • Trying
  • Man

• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Lost

• Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • War
  • Society
  • Culture

• In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Growth
  • Path
  • Temptation

• Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Church
  • Divorce
  • Adultery

• Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • She
  • Justice
  • Innocence

• How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!

  

  Edmund Spenser

• Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not-or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Good
  • Real
  • Money

• In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • World
  • Country

• Ich denke an dichte Fenster! Kein anderes Land kann so dichte und so schöne Fenster bauen.

  

  Angela Merkel

• I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

  

  Akhmad Kadyrov
  • Up
  • Family
  • Age

• When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • People

• I'm a Texas guy, and the good and bad of that is that I'm always, first and foremost, loyal. If it weren't for 'Supernatural,' I wouldn't have a lot of the blessings that I have today, so I'm going to play it out. I'm going to give it my all.

  

  Jared Padalecki
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Simple
  • Style

• I can speak Tamil fluently, and the sentence structures in Telugu are quite similar.

  

  Keerthy Suresh

• A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Book

• I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • Movie
  • Star

• Doubt is the beginning of wisdom. It means caution, independence, honesty and veracity. Faith means negligence, serfdom, insincerity and deception. The man who never doubts never thinks. He is like a straw in the wind or a waif on the sea. He is one of the helpless, docile, unquestioning millions, who keep the world in a state of stagnation, and serve as a fulcrum for the lever of despotism. The stupidity of the people, says Whitman, is always inviting the insolence of power.

  

  George William Foote
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Doubt

• Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Alcohol
  • Romance
  • Enjoyed

• Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Bad
  • Progress
  • Communication

• We are partners to leading organizations across industries and have delivered marquee and transformational programs.

  

  Azim Premji