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[Economist Alan Ruskin of I.D.E.A. was one of several Greenspan watchers who said the Fed chairman's remarks were warranted.] (His words) are extremely cautionary, ... They are quite clearly roiling the financial markets. I'm increasingly amused at the tenor of these remarks -- how clear-cut they are.


Alan Ruskin

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JOHN RUSKIN A book worth reading is worth buying.
JOHN RUSKIN You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
JOHN RUSKIN Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
JOHN RUSKIN Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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JOHN RUSKIN One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
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JOHN RUSKIN The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
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JOHN RUSKIN They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
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JOHN RUSKIN The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
JOHN RUSKIN Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.
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JOHN RUSKIN Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
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JOHN RUSKIN You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
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JOHN RUSKIN Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thin...
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JOHN RUSKIN The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
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JOHN RUSKIN What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
JOHN RUSKIN Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
JOHN RUSKIN Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
JOHN RUSKIN The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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JOHN RUSKIN Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them
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JOHN RUSKIN Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
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JOHN RUSKIN Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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JOHN RUSKIN To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
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JOHN RUSKIN The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
JOHN RUSKIN There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
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JOHN RUSKIN The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
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JOHN RUSKIN The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
JOHN RUSKIN Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
JOHN RUSKIN Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
JOHN RUSKIN It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is tha...
JOHN RUSKIN Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
JOHN RUSKIN Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
JOHN RUSKIN All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of ...
JOHN RUSKIN I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoy...
JOHN RUSKIN Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something ...
JOHN RUSKIN All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
JOHN RUSKIN It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with...
JOHN RUSKIN Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other ...
JOHN RUSKIN Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book o...
JOHN RUSKIN The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed...
JOHN RUSKIN Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really ...
JOHN RUSKIN