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Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything. — Wayne Dyer
As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one… — Will Cuppy
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression are far too… — Anna Lindh
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The monogram of our national initials, which is the symbol for our monetary unit, the dollar, is almost as frequently conjoined to the figures of… — Henry R. Towne
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by… — Unknown Author
It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe — Richard Dawkins
The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared — Francis Fukuyama
The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything. — George Washington
Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years… — E F Schumacher
The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else… — Noam Chomsky
Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible… — Ludwig von Mises
America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be… — Jeffrey Sachs
The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop… — Ben Bernanke
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then… — Richard Hamming
When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do… — Naomi Wolf
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be… — Daniel Ellsberg
Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning… — Rupert Murdoch

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