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  • Carol Loomis Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Burroughs Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry van Dyke Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Alexander Pope Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • W. H. Auden Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Billie Holiday Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Helen Rowland Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bella Freud Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Art Linkletter Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • C. K. Williams Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Butch Trucks Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bhante Henepola Gunaratana Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.
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  • Bob Diamond Soon after the financial crisis of 2008, I was at a meeting in Washington with a group of U.S. senators. They had invited me to provide a point of view on new regulation; regulation aimed at ensuring we never have to go through the events of 2008 ever again.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • James Thurber Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Dale Carnegie Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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