Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ~Japanese Proverb
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At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ~Paul Bremer
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Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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If you don't want anyone to find out, don't do it. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Everyone pushes a falling fence. ~Chinese Proverb
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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One must learn to make others happy if one wants to be happy. ~Swedish Proverb
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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
#quotes #maya-angelou #smoking #music

They are not all saints who use holy water. ~English Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
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Every decision you make is a mistake. ~Edward Dahlberg
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done. ~John Greenleaf Whittier
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. ~Chinese Proverb
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