Sarah Steelman Quotes
I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
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Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?
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You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.
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What is to be taught I learn; what is to be discovered I seek; what is to be prayed for I sought from the gods.
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A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
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If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.
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You will never solve the American problems just by printing money.
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You wish to put a positive construction on your deeds and words.
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I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.
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A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
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The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.
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When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.
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I'm an economist by training. And I know that what works is a permanent increase in buying power.
