Quotes 181 till 200 of 273.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
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Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
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Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
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So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
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Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd.
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Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
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Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved... I'm happy and relieved by this.
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Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused.
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Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
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The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
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The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
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The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
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The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.
On the forthcoming London Olympic Games. Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2012.
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