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  • Larry McMurtry Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
    Larry McMurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bradley Whitford Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Albert Low Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.
    Albert Low
     
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  • David Seabury Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Karl Kraus Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Billy Tauzin Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Ariel Sharon Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • Vikram Seth Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
    Vikram Seth
    Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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  • Carol Gilligan It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.
    Source: In a Different Voice
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • William Mathews It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
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  • Campbell Brown It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Jim Rohn It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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