Jeff Bezos Quotes
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
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When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
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Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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The lack of collective dignity felt by so many in the Arab world is the result of a combination of internal autocratic and corrupt regimes, with predictable ineffective and unaccountable governance, supported by external actors with short-term geopolitical interests.
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Trusting the world is a risk, while not trusting it is a guarantee you'll be left with nothing.
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
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Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.
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If death were the exception and not the rule, and we were not so swiftly to follow, these separations would be intolerably sad. We know no more of our next change of life than we knew of this before we were born into it; but that which we call death is merely change, who can doubt?
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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
