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• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Past
  • Democracy
  • Mistakes

• You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Push

• You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Business
  • Friend
  • Learn

• I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • You
  • Run

• In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Know
  • Alone

• When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Small
  • Feel
  • Recognition

• Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Great
  • Military
  • Leader

• Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Country
  • Children
  • Future

• Cut off the head of the snake

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Snake

• Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • May
  • Question

• Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Help
  • Animal
  • Sad

• Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Advice

• For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

  

  Learned Hand

• Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.

  

  Anthony Wayne
  • Storm

• One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • May
  • Business
  • Lost

• I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

  

  Bob Graham
  • Truth
  • War
  • House

• My entire career, everybody says I need to punch somebody.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Career

• America is a nation of laws, and it is wrong for Congresswoman Markey to propose bending the rules for a group of people whose first act in this country was to break the law.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.

  

  Frank Drake
  • People
  • Time
  • Learning

• I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Doubt
  • Impossible
  • Lawyers

• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Opinion
  • Arguments

• One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Feelings

• I can claim no background except perhaps the woods, running streams, hunting, fishing, camping, the sky...

  

  Arthur Dove
  • Sky
  • Fishing
  • Background