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  • Camilla Belle By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • E. F. Schumacher Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
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  • Bernard Werber Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.
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  • Bernie Sanders Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bobby Flay Chipotles to me are a one-of-a-kind pepper because they're smoked jalapenos, so they're fiery and they're smoky. It's good to use chipotles in salsas or soups or condiments - that works really well. To me, they always really pick up anything you put them in.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Billy Joel Come out, Virginia, don't let me wait. You Catholic girls start much too late, Ah, but sooner or later it comes down to fate. I might as well be the one.
    Only the Good Die Young (1977)
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Louisa May Alcott Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Barber Conable Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
    Barber Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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  • Samuel Butler Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Samuel Johnson Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carly Fiorina Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Barry Marshall Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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