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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Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.
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It's very important that Syria accepts the new reality and operates in a constructive, cooperative way with us and the United States.
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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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We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.
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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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The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.
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There are more slaves alive today than all the people stolen from Africa in the time of the transatlantic slave trade. Put another way, today's slave population is greater than the population of Canada, and six times greater than the population of Israel.
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So many Americans don't have their car serviced at the car dealer. But there's often a break in the knowledge stream between the manufacturers and independent repair shops. What manufacturers needed to do was bring highly trained technicians back in contact with consumers through the dealer.
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… I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
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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.
