"I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me."
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"Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?"
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"I think Ive done the best I could have done. But I keep wanting to play better, go further. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I havent yet done. When I was younger I thought maybe Id reached that peak. But Im 86 now, and if I make it through to next month, Ill be 87. And now I know it can never be perfect, it can never be exactly what it should be, so you got to keep going further, getting better."
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"When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic."
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"Regardless of what other stigmas may be involved, I think we have to do this because the world of medicine is trying to do the exact same thing and figure it out and they're coming to some conclusions."
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"I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself."
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"It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse."
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"I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there."
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"Change your thinking, change your life."
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"We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation."
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"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
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"I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone."
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"Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box."
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"I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention."
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"I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough."
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"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
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"Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before."
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"My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are."
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"Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing."
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"So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity."
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