Quotes 281 till 300 of 1829.
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By far the best way I know to engage the religious sensibility, the sense of awe, is to look up on a clear night.
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006) -
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
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By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
The Power Elite (1956) -
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
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Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
Pensees (1669) -
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
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Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
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Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
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Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
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Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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