Alfred Sheinwold Quotes

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

Alfred Sheinwold

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• Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
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• I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.

  

  Edi Rama
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• The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

  

  Ed Parker
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• India produces a lot of engineers. But the production of computer science engineers is low, pro rata. Computer engineers are more into theory and less in managing businesses, building businesses or writing source codes, the key to software development.

  

  Craig Mundie
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• You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
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• I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.

  

  William G. Boykin
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• The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

  

  Nikola Tesla
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• As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
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• My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

  

  Saffron Burrows
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• I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.

  

  Carl Andre
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• Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

  

  J. P. Morgan
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• We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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• Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

  

  Alfred Sheinwold
  • Partners
  • Afford
  • Politeness