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  • Ben Horowitz In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Salvador Dali In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Beck In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Mark Twain In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bryant Gumbel In the first two years this is a man who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Carl Paladino In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Aeschylus In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Mark Twain In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bee Wilson In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Benjamin Watson In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won't do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Brendan Dooling In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • H. P. Lovecraft In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • John Ray Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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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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  • Victor Hugo Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Initiative is doing the right things without being told.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • C. S. Lewis Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill Ackman Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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