Quotes 2781 till 2800 of 3019.
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When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
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When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
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When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk.
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When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
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When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
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When two laugh it is certain a misfortune has happened - to a third.
Source: The maxims of Marmaduke -
When we are children, we think that adults know how the world works. When we become adults, we know enough about the world to know that we know nothing about it...
Source: Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006 -
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
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When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!
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When we looked out at the world and saw what 3D scanners could do, we wanted to make something that could make really high quality models that you could create on your MakerBot.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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When you grow up in the church, the only translation in that insular world that people understand is preaching. You're supposed to be a minister. So I was going down that path, and then I saw the Tonys.
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When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Source: The diaries of Anais Nin (1977) Vol. 5
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