Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.
"A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up."
"Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal."
There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that.
When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.
Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for those people these medicines, we see scientists everywhere coming up with those new tools.
"Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible."
"He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass."
The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of gods green earth.
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."
"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities.
We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the protective things that the immune system makes, actually pass through to the baby, both when the baby is born, and through the mother's milk. Because the baby's immune system is actually not very strong for that first few months, using the mother's immune system to do this - it's a very exciting idea and something that we're investing heavily in.
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
Vision without execution is daydreaming.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
"For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations."
"I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it."
No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?
We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)
“The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.”
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
"You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control."
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
"I love Humanity but I hate humans."
"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
"The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation."
Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.
Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.
True respect comes from earning honors, not just having them.
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government.
All human happiness and misery take the form of action.
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited.
Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disentrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
"You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance."
"The essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn."
I can make a general in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
“There is no higher religion than human service.”
This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.
"Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry."
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
"In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages."
"Grown ups are certainly very strange."
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
"A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories."
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
"Creativity is connected to your passion, that light inside you that drives you. . . . Your creativity is not a bad boyfriend. It is a really warm older Hispanic lady who has a beautiful laugh and loves to hug."
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.
"Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!"
"You cannot judge the value of a life by its length."
"It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more."
Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.
Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.
"GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain."
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
The greatest good qualities are those that help others the most.
"I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it."
"You are the only one who creates in your experience – no one else. Everything that comes to you comes by the power of your thought."
"When you feel good, you're allowing good. When you don't feel good, you are not allowing good."
"There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world."
"If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers."
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. I really hope no one misinterprets this quote as being about masturbation.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
"If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard."
If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.
"Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person."
Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.
"It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for."
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.
"The greatest gift that you could ever give another is the gift of your expectation of their success."
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
"True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man."
"A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out."
"Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations."
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
"Straight ahead you can't go very far."
"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."
When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
"You are eternal Beings who have chosen to participate in this specific physical life experience for many wonderful reasons. And this time-space-reality on Planet Earth serves as a platform in which you are able to focus your perspective for the purpose of specific creation."
"Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else."
“Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”).”
A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
"It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme."
