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Quotes 401 till 420 of 1709.

  • Barack Obama Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
    Iowa Caucus Speech (3 jan 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ann Oakley Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Jim Valvano How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.
    Jim Valvano
    American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (1946 - 1993)
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  • Ben Horowitz How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
    Autobiography of Mark Twain (2013) 302
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Agatha Christie How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
    Death on the Nile (1937)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bruce Sterling Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine - and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so -and now the dross is coming.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Stephen Leacock I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Anthony Weiner I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Henry James I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Alain de Botton I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Bette Davis I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Queen Victoria I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan I am proud of my work for my country.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • Aaliyah I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Austan Goolsbee I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Walt Whitman I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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