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  • Henry Ford The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.

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    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Alfred de Vigny The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Bernard Beckett The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bono The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Carrie Mae Weems The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.
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  • A. Harvey Block The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them.
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Will Rogers The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Laurence J. Peter The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Booker T. Washington The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bruce Dickinson The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Candace Bushnell The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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