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  • Alexis de Tocqueville As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Candice Millard As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carlos Ghosn As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Elizabeth Jennings At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
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  • Ben Nicholson At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Seneca Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Hesiod Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.
    Hesiod
    Greek poet
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  • Barry Ritholtz Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • David Starr Jordan Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
    David Starr Jordan
    American educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
    Wilfrid Meynell - Benjamin Disraeli (1903) p. 83
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Micheal Mescon Be it furniture, clothes, or health care, many industries today are marketing nothing more than commodities - no more, no less. What will make the difference in the long run is the care and feeding of customers.
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  • Sappho Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
    Sappho
    Greek poet (630 - 570)
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  • Bruno Tonioli Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Barney Frank Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Carl Hagelin Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Francis Quarles Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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