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“No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.”
Source : Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”
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“I think the big thing about Groupon is just people had never seen anything grow quite so fast.”
Source : "The real deal with Groupon". "60 minutes: Groupon" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbshw.net. January 15, 2012. 
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“It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.”
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“I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.”
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“They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.”
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“I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.”
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“Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.”
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“Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We've seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying.”
