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"Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation."


"But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors."

"A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens."

"Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all."

"Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor."

"My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about."


"Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you."
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"Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure."

"You don't have to get it right the first time."


"I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback."

"It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers."

"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed."

"I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living."

"A loss never bothers me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong - not taking the loss - that is what does damage to the pocketbook and to the soul."

"I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on."

"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."

"As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains."


"Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion."

"What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working."

"If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined."

"In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music."

"I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors."

"Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis."

"These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich."


"They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women."

"I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business."

"If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable."


"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could."

"There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work."

"I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said."

"The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised."

"The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic."

"We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home."


"We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat."


"For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff."

"If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground."

"Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job."

"Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up."

"The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors."

"Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history."

"Humor can be one of our best survival tools."

"I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot."


"But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place."

"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."

"I have learned that you can't have good advertising without a good client, that you can't keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for."

"My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government."
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