William J. H. Boetcker Quotes
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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In Benin, there's a thing that family members wear the same pattern of traditional African clothing.
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One thing is for sure: a World Cup without me is nothing to watch.
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Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
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I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don't systematically bail out people who take excessive risks.
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Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That's the only way to make it work.
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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending
