Azim Premji Quotes

Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.

Azim Premji

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Culture means control over nature.

Johan Huizinga

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Utopia means elsewhere.

John Malkovich

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A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Ann Plato

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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

John Stuart Mill

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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce

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I grew up in Imperial Beach, surfing and going to the beach - my son plays baseball at the park.

Sonny Sandoval

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I love SongwritingWith:Soldiers.

Mary Gauthier

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My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

Marvin Hamlisch

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My hypothesis is not so much that the court is the natural expression of popular justice, but rather that its historical function is to ensnare it, to control it and strangle it, by re-inscribing it within institutions which are typical of a state apparatus.

Michel Foucault

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Most people catch them breaching from the surface when they're shooting out of the water. I have them breaching from underwater in a 16-time sequence, a shark leaving the water and then reentering the water.

Michael Muller

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The point of a presidential campaign is to put the candidate through the ringer: to force him to get banged up by his opponents and the press, and to have to answer the difficult and uncomfortable questions, be investigated, and learn the thrust and parry of political swordplay.

Monica Crowley

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The only way to win the White House, in my view, is to become a nominee of either the Republican or the Democrat Party, and simply running to be a spoiler would not give the American people, I think, the chance to express their own views about Mr. Trump or about Secretary Clinton.

Mitt Romney

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