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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Hell History Modern Nations
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The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Communicate Determines Lives Others
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Had Humility Little Only
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Amazed Among Capability College
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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

Better Better Job Could Good
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When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

About Candidates CNN Come
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For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Businesses Create Creating Difference
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I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.

Because Changed Driven Energy
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

Back Best Buying Cable
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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Alone Circus Die Love
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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Life Literature Those Writing
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Activities Business Concerned Far
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Concentrate Determination Diligence Done
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In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Brings Children Existence Injustice
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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Civility Extended Money None
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Ability Any Awesome Beings
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Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Around Eat Enough Here
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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Happens Responsibility Take Whatever
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Cause Considered Difference Friend
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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Armed Best Free Mean
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Against Altar Eternal Every
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I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

Able Been Build Business
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An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the front line, they know when things are not going right, and they know when things need to be improved. And if you listen to them, you can soon improve all those niggly things which turns an average company into an exceptional company.

Average Company Details Exceptional
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When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Ability Vision Beyond Majority
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Estimate Humility Make Right
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Easy Evil Generally Little
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More businesses should be following Apple's stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

Apple Businesses Encouraging Following
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Politics Turn Will You
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When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Conversion Deserve Done Gratitude
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Big Business Dirty England
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Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

Forget Forgiven Hour Immortality
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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Boy Dad Father He
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

After Cycle Deep Democracy
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

Competition Crazy Dreams Easier
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You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe.

Black Essential Little Occasion
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Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

Blue Color Exact Field
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I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Country Employees Gentlemen Important
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The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

America Borders Leaders Our
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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Ability Average Average Person Between
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Admission Compromise Compromised Contradictory
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Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Care Duty Future Itself
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There is little success where there is little laughter.

Laughter Little There Success
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Believe Consist Doing Duties
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Any Cannot Climb He
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Ability Anything Anything Else Else
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Approve Brave Business Conduct
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

Against Align Because Change
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If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Accurate Around Biography Mind
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Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.

Elected Everybody Everything Get
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Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Always World Strong Down
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