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All Quotes Collection

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
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"Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest."
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"I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand."
12

"Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it."
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"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."
63

"Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes."
51

"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."
17

"You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together."
56

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
36

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
15

"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
9

"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."
45

"When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill."
58

"So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way."
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."
67

"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
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"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."
62

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
22

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."
39

"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."
21

"When the PC was launched, people knew it was important."
40

"God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man."
42

"This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50."
76

"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."
56

"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."
15

"Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly."
57

"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
53

"Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly."
55

"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness."
48

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
14

"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
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