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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Art Friendship Give Philosophy
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Ahead Behind Better Kind
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Expense Gratified Instinct Claim
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Apart Before Began Done
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Power Prescription Science Technology
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

Around Broke Fast Get
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When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.

Disappointment Discouraged Things Try
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The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Could Country Cure Diseases
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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Always Handle Hold Smooth
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Gain Government Ground Liberty
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Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

Focusing Get Lot Most
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Believe Desire He Know
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I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Atlantic Balloon Boat Brush
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Authority Cause First Intention
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faith Hand Hope Seen
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From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Age Allowing Businesses Creatively
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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 a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Around Budget Church Media
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I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

Involved Love Preach Mainly
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One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

People Someone Things Worst
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Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

Delightful Important Material Material Things
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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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Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Achievements Cloud Disappear Fast
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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Changing Changing The World Excited Get
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Advances Around Ask Been
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

Better Clean Clean Energy Energy
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

Believe Big Business Change
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Burning Deploy Effect Environment
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

Both Combine Company Electric
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We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

Affects Beautiful Build Create
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You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

Best Best Way Come Companies
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

Best Customers Everyone Evil
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

Because Boring Building Change
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I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

Art Baths Bubble Friends
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You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

Against Confident Defensive Feel
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Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Better Change Hands Own
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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Business Make Necessary Others
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A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Classy Fabulous Girl Two
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Any Know Men Things
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Below Far Invisible Musician
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Common Given Judges Other
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I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

Able Act Character Everyday
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I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

Different Each Know Movies
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I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

Actor Always Been Cause
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Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.

Does Her Meryl Meryl Streep
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School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

Could Focus Got Knack
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One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Anything Bankrupt Both Government
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Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Communicate Effectively Employees Good
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Achieve Attitude Big Develop
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