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The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.

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• America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Me
  • Ladies
  • Gentlemen

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Respect
  • Kind
  • Lie

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• I've never been one to bet on the weather.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Never
  • Weather
  • Bet

• As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Up
  • Different
  • Pretty

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Selling

• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Best
  • Try

• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • People
  • Voice
  • Television

• The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Without

• The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Great
  • Long
  • Trying

• Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

  

  Irena Sendler
  • Help
  • Today
  • Earth

• I’ve lived most of my life already and I suppose I can argue myself into believing that I have no great cause to love humanity. However, only a few people have hurt me, and if I hurt everyone in return that is unconscionable usury.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Nature
  • Bird

• Here is the real domino theory: Gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

  

  Anna Quindlen
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Fall

• Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • Success

• No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Joy
  • Discovery
  • Plagiarist

• I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Way

• Brittany is a very good defensive player with a strong arm. She is very athletic and one of those kids I could play in the outfield.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Player
  • Arm
  • Defensive

• What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Truth
  • Christianity
  • Conviction

• The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.

  

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