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The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested i

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but its the only thing theyve been allowed to do. – Paul Theroux

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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. Its not about inventing. – Paul Theroux

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Travel
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When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didnt make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didnt make a phone call. So for six years I didnt make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. – Paul Theroux

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Peace
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In this business, if you dont pay your debts youre finished. – Roger Stone

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Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money. – Michael Porter

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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps its time America was run like a business. – Donald Trump

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Everything is tennis for me, its my career and its entertainment, but its also a business. – Venus Williams

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Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. – Esa Tikkannen, 1979

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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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He whose science exceedeth his sense, perisheth by his ignorance. – Old saying

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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. Id go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying. – Taryn Manning

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