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All Quotes Collection
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."
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"Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of."
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"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
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"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
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"We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis."
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"Beauty and folly are old companions."
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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
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"I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away."
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"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
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"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction."
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"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."
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"It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us."
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"This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many."
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"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!"
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"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
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"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."
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"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
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"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
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"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
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"We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent."
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"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
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"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"
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"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back."
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"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
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"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time."
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"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."
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"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
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"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
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"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."
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"Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
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"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
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"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."
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