Quotes 321 till 340 of 561.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
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No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
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No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.
Source: Detroit Economic Club, August 21, 1992 -
Nobody, but nobody stays a public-address announcer for more than a couple of years. Truly. Public-address announcing is not a career. Public-address announcers only work 81 days a year, so you don't make a living.
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Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.
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Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Source: "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html -
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
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Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a full year off and maybe even see the world a bit.
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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
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