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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A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
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I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get Gummi tummy, and that's no good. I can't believe I'm saying this. ~Jensen Ackles
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Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go. ~William J. Clinton
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it. ~Italian Proverb
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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They say I tried to hurt my nurse. I tell them they tried to hurt me first. ~CJ Roberts
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Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well. ~Bob Brown
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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Discretion is the greater part of valor. ~English Proverb
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Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or surpass their previous month's sales. ~Nancy Dunnan
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. ~Gilbert Newton Lewis
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. ~Jacques Derrida
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In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally. ~Vince Lombardi
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. ~Robert H. Schuller
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. ~Stephen King
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. ~Charlayne Hunter Gault
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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The past has been a mint of blood and sorrow. That must not be true of tomorrow. ~Langston Hughes
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