Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • H. Ross Perot If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Ziad K. Abdelnour If someone is going out of his way to ignore you, he is not ignoring you, he is obsessed by you.
    Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    American banker (1960 - )
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  • Elizabeth Taylor If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Bruce Oldfield If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Norman Augustine If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
    Norman Augustine
    American aerospace businessman (1935 - )
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Bruce Lipton If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.
    As quoted in Awakening Indians to India
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bill Hybels If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Emerson Pugh If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
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  • Bill Bryson If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.
    A Walk in the Woods
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Charles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Russell Hoban If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Anatole France If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • James A. Garfield If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Cass Sunstein If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio - most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don't come to fruition.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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