Peter Roskam Quotes
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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I'm very candid.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
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Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
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I'm trying to be one of the greatest players, so whatever level that consists of is where I want to take my game.
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The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.
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Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.
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Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
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When you look around the world, every place that socialism has been implemented, it has failed miserably, destroying the economy, freedom and - in Germany, the Soviet Union and other nations - millions of lives.
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More coal-to-liquid means more energy and a stronger economy.
