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  • Russell Wayne Baker In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
    Russell Wayne Baker
    American writer (1925 - 2019)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Herbert Hoover In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.
    Speech Stanford University, 11 august 1928
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Herbert Hoover In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Paul Gauguin In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Barbara Corcoran In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Warren Mitchell In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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  • George Herbert In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Louis Nizer In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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  • Audre Lorde In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Honoré de Balzac In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Andrew Jackson In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • William S. Gilbert In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind - he found it less exciting.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Francis Bacon In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Sir Robert Anderson In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
    Sir Robert Anderson
    English police officer, theologian and writer (1841 - 1918)
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  • John Muir In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
    John Muir
    Scottish-American writer and conservationist (1838 - 1914)
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  • Ann Coulter In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Carol Loomis In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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