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Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... 
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge... 
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It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ... 
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... 
Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An... 
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... 
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin... 
Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His... 
President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi... 
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In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif... 
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. 
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t... 
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor... 
This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... 
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth. 
A third Cato has dropped from the skies. 
Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong. 
Happiness is a journey not a destination. 
No one will do it for you. 
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. 
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort... 
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot 
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... 
We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda... 
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st... 
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. 
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ... 
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. 
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. 
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Art has an enemy called ignorance. 
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h... 
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. 
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Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. 
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th... 
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture ... 