B. C. Forbes Quotes
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I would like to direct.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
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I haven't felt anchored my entire life. But I kind of like it.
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Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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Das wahrhaft Schöne, Große und Erhabene, so wie es uns in Erstaunen und Verwunderung setzt, überrascht uns doch nicht als etwas Fremdes, Unerhörtes und Niegesehenes, sondern unser eigenstes Wesen wird uns in solchen Augenblicken klar, unsre tiefsten Erinnerungen werden erweckt, und unsre nächsten Empfindungen lebendig gemacht.
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One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
