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6491 quotes by 4013 authors
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In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound…
— Friedrich Schiller
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The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change…
— Parker J. Palmer
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It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses…
— Benjamin Graham
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How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it…
— Louis Sullivan
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Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend their resources on…
— David Platt
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A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always…
— Antoine-Henri Jomini
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If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing…
— Barry Eisler
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I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the…
— Nancy Johnson
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It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.
— Anna Quindlen
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The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note that the word…
— Catherine Ponder
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Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it…
— Albert J. Nock
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You are well equipped with an incredible potential for absorbing knowledge. Â Let your imagination, the key to learning and memory, unleash that brain power…
— Dominic O'Brien
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All I worried about was what Owings was doing to me, instead of what I was doing to him. When you start worrying about that…
— Dan Gable
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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs…
— Stuart Wilde
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We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing schools for their…
— Nel Noddings
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I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in…
— Michael Lewis
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You should do it against the clock. Say you are going to do 30 laps in 15 minutes. Then you try to do it each…
— Jack LaLanne
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Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in…
— Richard Wiseman
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You can't wear revealing clothes because of the sex addicts. Instead, you wear big bras, big pants and baggy tops. You're taught to respect others'…
— Kerry Katona
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