Laurance Rockefeller famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be- we can achieve that kind of physical and spiritual renewal that comes alone from the wonder of the natural world.
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Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.
-- Laurance Rockefeller
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
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I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.
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Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.
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Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.
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An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.
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