Benjamin Rush Quotes
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Benjamin Rush
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
Laura San Giacomo
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Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.
Wayne Dyer
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
Parker Posey
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
Cameron Mackintosh
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Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.
Patrick deWitt
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Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
Quincy Jones
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Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.
Dan Jenkins
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I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.
Hamilton Jordan
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards.
Walt Mossberg
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President Trump has a serious credibility problem. He tries to take credit for jobs he didn't create and, with respect to the F-35 program, savings that were achieved before he even took office.
Jack Reed
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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
Charlotte Bronte
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In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?
Edward Jay Epstein
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Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
Scott Westerfeld
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He liked to think that Heaven was what each person wanted it to be. He could see no future in lying around on a fluffy white cloud and listening to somebody playing on a harp, a picture of Heaven he had seen numerous times in one form or another. Even if it was that way, his personal preference would have run more to the fiddle.
Elmer Kelton
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As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Benjamin Rush
