Quotes with one-seventh

Quotes 5281 till 5300 of 5912.

  • Bill Maris We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Kofi Annan We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
    We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century (2015) 68
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • B. W. Powe We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
    Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Swami Ramdas We have to take the whole universe as the expression of the one Self. Then only our love flows to all beings and creatures in the world equally.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Henry Miller We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Gail Sheehy We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Auberon Herbert We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Carl Honore We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Chief Seattle We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • William Winwood Reade We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Carl Sagan We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster.
    with Anne Kalosh (October 1994), Bringing Science Down to Earth, Hemispheres
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aldous Huxley We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Hazlitt We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear one more than once.
    Characteristics (1823)
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Herman Melville We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Kofi Annan We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
    Twitter (2016)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • George Sheehan We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
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  • Asa Hutchinson We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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