John Jacob Astor Quotes
If you wish a thing done, get some one to do it for you; but if you wish it done well, do it yourself.
John Jacob Astor
Quotes to Explore
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
Nancy Pearcey
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Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.
Adam Smith
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Democrats cannot conceive of 'hate speech' towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.
Ann Coulter
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That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.
Billy Crystal
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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I am on the International Board of Best Buddies, and I am also working with Special Olympics, and with The Arc to help people with disabilities become more independent and more included in their communities.
Lauren Potter
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Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.
Ernst Mach
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The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.
Mildred Dresselhaus
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Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it's good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble.
Elvis Mitchell
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One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.
Alex Epstein
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With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.
Bruce Bartlett
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If you wish a thing done, get some one to do it for you; but if you wish it done well, do it yourself.
John Jacob Astor