Newcomers Quotes
37 quotes by 36 authors
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is…
— Margaret Mead
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The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an industry…
— Fritz Machlup
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Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely…
— Mark Twain
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A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes,…
— Robert Muller
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Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis' emotional vocabulary, his…
— Robin Becker
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Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
— Jeff Goodell
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The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a land that was…
— Harry S. Truman
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The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers,…
— Harry S. Truman
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There is no way to create wealth without ideas. Most new ideas are created by newcomers. So anyone who thinks the world is safe for…
— Gary Hamel
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Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen,…
— Pico Iyer
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We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.
— Roger Mahony
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I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in…
— Romano Prodi
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To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make…
— Celia Rivenbark
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The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step…
— John Updike
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The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors, who occasionally exercise…
— Gary North
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In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work…
— Sue Wicks
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With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me…
— Nile Rodgers
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To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly…
— Jonathan Raban
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If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.
— Scott McCloud
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What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.
— H. L. Mencken
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