Mike Ferguson (Michael A. "Mike" Ferguson) Quotes
The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.
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Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.
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Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.
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I enjoyed running at that pace, I tried to just hang on to Valentino.
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As the ball comes down the pitch at such pace, it is a challenge just to keep going. But I'm working on it.
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A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.
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By keeping the Internet free of discriminatory taxes, we've encouraged companies and consumers to do their business in the electronic marketplace, ... Congress originally enacted the moratorium to prevent thousands of state and local taxing jurisdictions from using the Internet as a cash cow. Rather than slow down the Internet with a slew of new taxes, we ought to extend the moratorium to allow the Web to reach its full potential.
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Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.
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David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.
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You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.
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There is simply no way to sustain an economy based on consumer credit.
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But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.
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A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.
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I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.
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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
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We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
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I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?
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Upon the decease of my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in my own right, shall receive their freedom . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.
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I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
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Those who are unswerving have resolve.
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... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?
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The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.
