William S. Knudsen Quotes
The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.
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I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.
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We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.
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You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.
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So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.
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You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
