"While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses."

-- Eli Broad

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“I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we will be automatically drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say "you're not going to be making national decisions for us"”
“In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.”
“So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.”
“The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken”
“Buddhism helps people to overcome pain. The deepest pain that Chinese people feel now is the pain of separation from loved ones, one of the eight pains in Buddhism.”
“That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.”

Source : "Lifting the cause of women and breast cancer awareness". TODAY interview, www.today.com. August 5, 2010.
“Lula was really the face of Brazil's boom in the previous decade and is one of the most towering politicians in the country today, so for this investigation to find get to him is an enormous deal.”
“If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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