No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle. ~Jodi Picoult
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted; it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ~Paul Ryan
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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The fear among economists across the political spectrum was that we were rapidly plummeting toward a second Great Depression. So in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps, largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve. ~Barack Obama
#quotes #barack-obama #government #economy

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. ~Pearl S. Buck
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. ~Peter Shaffer
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision. ~Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
#quotes #john-coltrane #feelings