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  • What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.
  • What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
  • I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.
  • I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
  • It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
  • I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants.
  • I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
  • Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
  • Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
  • Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.
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  • C. S. Lewis Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Voltaire Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bertrand Russell Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Georges Bernanos Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Joseph Roux Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Adam Clayton Powell Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • George Eliot It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ralph Charell It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived…
    Ralph Charell
    American author
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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison A famous person is often remembered for the ability to take from mankind rather than for his ability to give to mankind.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Carl Honore Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Joseph Addison An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Albert Einstein And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Joseph Stowell Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • Anthony de Mello Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Robert Orben Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Fielding Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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