Miles D. White Quotes
People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.
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I don't think fashion is evil.
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Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.
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People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.
