Quotes with take-no-prisoners

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  • Barney Frank Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
    Ben Nighthorse Campbell
    American Cheyenne politician (1933 - )
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  • Günter Grass Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Paul G. Thomas Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level.
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  • Alexander Woollcott It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Alexander Haig It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Garry Kasparov It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Cameron Bright It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
    Cameron Bright
    Canadian actor (1993 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Thorstein Veblen It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Douglas Jerold It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard It is an honor for me to take part in Canon's Project Imagin8ion, partnering with a brand that is empowering young filmmakers and is at the forefront of technology.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another, but above all try something.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • George Orwell It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
    Down and Out in Paris and London Ch. 33
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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