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Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
Larry Brilliant / Physician
Global Warming
Global
Warming
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Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
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War
Disease
People
Smallpox
History People More
Wars
More People
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
Larry Brilliant / Physician
Climate Change
Engineering
Dealing
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.
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Has Beens
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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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Judgment
Superficial
World
Judgments
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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Batting
Fire
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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Feels
Great Things
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This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.
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Far Away
Global Warming
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A 501(c)3 can't lobby. A 501(c)3 can't invest in a company or build an industry. It may be that the only way to deal with climate change is to create an industry or build companies.
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Climate Change
Change Way Climate
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I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
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Indian
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One percent of the equity, 1 percent of the profits, and 1 percent of the people go into Google.org. The most important asset isn’t money, it’s people. One percent of the people means 60 or 70 of the smartest people in the world trying to solve some of the biggest problems in the world.
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Google
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People
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Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
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Heart
People
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In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war. A hundred and fifty thousand people from all over the world, doctors of every race, religion, culture and nation, who fought side by side, brothers and sisters, with each other, not against each other, in a common cause to make the world better.
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Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."
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Integrity
Mean
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The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why crowds came to see him. You could feel that. It sounds ridiculous to talk about love when you are making a gadget. But Steve loved his work, he loved the products he produced, and it was palpable. He communicated that love through bits of steel and plastic.
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Jobs
Character
Gadgets
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If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important question. If you don't bring in values and religion, you'll be asking superficial questions. What is life all about? What is our relationship to God? These are the important questions. What is our obligation to one another and community? If we don't ask those questions, the residual questions that we're asking aren't as interesting.
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Interesting
Religious
Spiritual
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If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the obvious thing to do. I don't think of myself as some great manager or great leader. I've been very lucky to be in the positions that I've been in. I meet a lot of people and I've grown a lot of companies, and I meet a lot of CEOs at big enterprises. I'm always so surprised at how much they seem to know. It doesn't always seem to be correlated to how well they actually do.
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Business
Obvious Things
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