Charles M. Schwab Quotes
Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality...
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
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The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
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I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.
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Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole.
