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  • Cass Sunstein Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they should.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Gordon B. Hinckley Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
    Gordon B. Hinckley
    American religious leader and author (1910 - 2008)
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  • William Hazlitt Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Achille Poincelot Envy pierces more in the restriction of praises than in the exaggeration of its criticisms.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • Bernie Sanders Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Andreas Capellanus Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
    Andreas Capellanus
    French writer (1150 - 1220)
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  • Benjamin Booker Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Voltaire Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Charles Dickens Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Stephen King Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • George Gurdjieff Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bernie Sanders Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bo Bennett Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anthony Weiner Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • J. Russel Lynes Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
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  • James Russell Lowell Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Konrad Lorenz Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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