Ben Bernanke Quotes
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.
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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
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I put myself through college playing pool.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
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Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.
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Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.
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We're a nation of immigrants.
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No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
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Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.
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The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
