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  • George Orwell The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry Ford The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • William Ellery Channing The home is the chief school of human virtues.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Beth Henley The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • George Eliot The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Billy Higgins The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • Ben Horowitz The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Horace The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Arthur Laffer The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Gerald Early The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
    Gerald Early
    American essayist and American (1952 - )
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  • Katharine Hepburn The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Beth Henley The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mary Corelli The only true criticism of high art is silence, silence as grand as heaven itself.
    Mary Corelli
    British writer (1855 - 1924)
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  • Bob Riley The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Owen Davies The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
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  • Bernard Williams The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Angela Merkel The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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