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The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
William E. Simon
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It's difficult to change overnight but if you are persistent and take one step at a time you will see results!
Jack LaLanne
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Horticulture, for its proper advancement and full development, seems necessarily to be as international in its character as are the finances of the world.
Washington Atlee Burpee
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Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.
William Rosenberg
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I don't think there's anything else I'd rather be doing than making Sun successful.
Scott McNealy
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If they had made that longer six-cylinder crankshaft strong enough and had supported it well enough, they would have obtained the smoother action they talks about in their advertisements. But they could not do that, and those early sixes had a very undesirable period vibration at certain speeds. That vibration more than offset the gain that they would have realized, if they had treated the crankshaft properly.
Henry M. Leland
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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
Jeff Bezos
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What you've got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don't wuss out.
Michael Bloomberg
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The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.
Jac Holzman
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The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California
John Moody (financial analyst)
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Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.
Obert C. Tanner
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We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.
Ed Colligan
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Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?
Dean Kamen
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People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.
Gurbaksh Chahal
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There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.
Herbert V. Prochnow
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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.
Clint Murchison, Jr.
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Well, with regard to Syria, I do think that it's a mess. I think that the only way that we deal with Syria is to join hands with Russia to diplomatically bring that at an end. But when we've aligned ourselves with — when we've supported the opposition of the Free Syrian Army — the Free Syrian Army is also coupled with the Islamists.
Gary Johnson
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The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!
George Francis Train
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We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.
Owen D. Young
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The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.
Steve Forbes
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Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.
Dennis Bakke
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With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
Dee Hock
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If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.
James P. Gorman
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People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.
Nido Qubein
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Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.
Douglas Conant
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