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All Quotes Collection
"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave."
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"Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not."
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"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting."
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"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
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"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
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"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up."
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"When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen."
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"Games lubricate the body and the mind."
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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
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"I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old."
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"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."
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"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
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"Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
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"In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again."
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"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."
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"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."
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"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."
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"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."
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"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
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"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."
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"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
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"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
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"The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty."
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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel."
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"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."
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"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
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"On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future."
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"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."
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"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."
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