David Ignatius Quotes
The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take risky bets that don't pan out.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.
Gail Devers -
When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
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There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.
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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
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The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.
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The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take risky bets that don't pan out.
