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“This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.”
Source : Speech at Blackpool 24 May 1945, in Daily Herald 25 May 1945
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“Innovation, sending civilians to outer space, mapping the mind, curing cancer - all these things, they're great. Obviously these same companies are also making a lot of money and accumulating a lot of our data at the same time, which seemed like independent things and one is beneficial and one is problematic for us as individuals, but in the rush of the new I think a lot of the philosophical, ethical, moral, and legal questions don't get asked in time. It's not in our nature to pause, sit, meditate, question, debate. We move forward. Technology generally answers itself with more technology.”
Source : Source: www.empireonline.com
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“I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods that's not true.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.”
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“The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.”
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“Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.”
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“The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.”
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“Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups.”
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“Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift - yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.)”
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“My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.”
