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Will Wilkinson

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• The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • War
  • Friend
  • Chance

• God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Luxury
  • Bless

• A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

  

  John Milton
  • Nights
  • Continent
  • Boundless

• This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • City
  • Citizens
  • Interests

• When we came to this country, unfortunately, my father lost his job, and we were this close to destitution. We were put on food stamps. We were put in public housing.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Country
  • Job
  • Food

• The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?

  

  Charles Teo
  • Brain
  • Cancer
  • Patient

• I've been fortunate enough to travel to 58 different countries and I thank God everyday that I was born in this country. The most exceptional country that the world has ever known. And I want to make sure that we preserve that exceptionalism for the next generation.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Travel
  • Fortunate
  • Thank God

• I think we need to be put back in touch with our childhood...to be reminded of what's important, like memories about people we loved, or things that happened to us that affected our lives, things we can laugh about and shed a few tears about... I think storytelling is a way of saying 'I love you. I love you enough to tell you something that means a great deal to me.'

  

  Kathryn Tucker Windham
  • Important
  • Mean
  • Childhood

• Employees should never become too comfortable with suppliers.

  

  Albert J. Dunlap
  • Comfortable
  • Employees
  • Suppliers

• I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.

  

  Dana White
  • Figure Out
  • Do For Free
  • Way To Do

• I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

  

  Francine Prose
  • Children
  • Book
  • Nostalgia

• Just don't let anything get in the way of what you want to achieve. A lot of people get knocked back by friends, or family, or peer pressure. If you have a talent and want to do something with it, it's down to you. If it's what you really want then go after it and be very selfish... You have to remain committed, you have to stay focused and you have to be selfish.

  

  George Sampson
  • Talent
  • Achieve
  • Selfish

• Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

  

  William H. Whyte
  • Action
  • Pressure
  • Neighborhood

• Belgium is a country with a split personality.

  

  Nicholas Royle
  • Personality
  • Split
  • Belgium

• The power of our intention and the energy it unleashes are dependent on our levels of coherence and intensity. The affirmation of our positive intentions in thought, feeling and action increases the power of our abilities. Nonetheless, it is important to appreciate that the matrix of physical, emotional, and mental levels of consciousness through which our personal and collective intentions and choices are explored and experienced require a “health warning” on interpreting the Law of Attraction too simplistically.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Energy
  • Emotional
  • Intensity

• An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Achievement
  • Bondage
  • Obliges

• Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources. Capital, in corporate hands, can move anywhere and thus demand and get the utmost in concessions and privileges as well as the freedom to operate in the interest of ever-increasing wealth and assets.

  

  Eric Kierans
  • Freedom
  • Wealth
  • Resources

• Libertarians are liberals who like markets.

  

  Will Wilkinson
  • Markets
  • Libertarians