Charles Ruff Quotes
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's nonsense.
Charles Ruff
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A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can provide an experience that leads to individual self-empowerment.
Pierre Omidyar
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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers
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A good memory is needed after one has lied.
Pierre Corneille
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Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
David Malpass
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I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.
George Allen
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I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.
Eric Schmidt
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Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from below. There was a sharp, unbearable smell of birds, of cod, of green decaying seaweed. Through the mist the huge ruddy sun loomed nearer and nearer. And in the sea, dark blood welled up to meet it - in bloated, rearing, huge white waves. Night. The mouth of the bay between two cliffs was like a window. A window shutting out curious eyes with a white shade-white woolly fog. And all that you could see was that behind it something red was happening. (The North)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
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Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: Compared to what? At what cost? What are the hard facts?.
Thomas Sowell
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's nonsense.
Charles Ruff