James Surowiecki Quotes
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
Gail Collins -
If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
Magic Johnson -
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
Irving Babbitt -
Life is not easy in politics.
Viktor Orban -
Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
Yuna
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I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
Olga Kurylenko -
I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
Kate Williams -
I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
Laura Bush -
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Harold Rosenberg -
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
H. Rap Brown -
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
Abraham Cahan
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I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.
Odette Annable -
When you were a stock player, you worked on anything that was shooting on the lot in any capacity.
Barbara Hale -
The words of the Constitution … are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
Felix Frankfurter -
Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
W. Clement Stone -
People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.
Joan Jett -
I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
Hailey Gates
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
Tammy Bruce -
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
J. William Fulbright -
It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.
James Surowiecki