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I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design. ”
My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great. ”
There's so much more to me as a human being than just my appearance, and I want to integrate that into my work. ”
Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition. ”
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ”
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ”
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. ”
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. ”
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. ”
Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. ”