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  • Bernard M. Baruch If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Beatrice Webb If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Bill Clinton If ever there comes a time when everyone you vote for wins and they do everything you think they should do, there will still be a gap between what is and what ought to be.
    Source: Interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Anthea Turner If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.
    Anthea Turner
    English television presenter (1960 - )
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  • Fran Tarkenton If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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  • A. W. Tozer If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Calvin Coolidge If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Richard Cecil If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Ben Schwartz If I play a video game, I have to get through the whole thing. Like, when the new 'Resident Evil' comes out, I have to sit and do the whole thing. It will consume my life. I'm at a point where I don't have much time to play around anymore, so I don't really get started on the games if I won't be able to finish them.
    Ben Schwartz
    American actor, comedian, writer and producer (1981 - )
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  • Barry Mann If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Betsey Johnson If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Alice Duer Miller If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Ann Coulter If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • O. Henry If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • James Agee If music be the breakfast food of love, kindly do not disturb until lunch time.
    Source: Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies (1958)
    James Agee
    American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic (1909 - 1955)
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  • Bobby Flay If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Sylvia Plath If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Edith Wharton If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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