Quotes with run-d

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  • Ben Bernanke The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • John Major The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
    John Major
    British politician (1943 - )
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  • Carl Van Doren The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • C. S. Lewis The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • William Blake The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • C. S. Lewis The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
    Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Amiel The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Boris Johnson The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Ben Bradlee The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • Billie Jean King The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The only thing that will really change global warming in the long run is if we radically increase the speed with which we get alternative technologies to deal with climate change.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Billy Sunday The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
    Source: As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Ovid The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Lewis Mumford The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Mark Twain The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barry Ritholtz The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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