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- It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
- Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), East of Eden
- The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) Ch. 3
- If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), "The Future" Ch. 5, Essays in Persuasion (1931)
- The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (13 December 1935)
- The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), (attributed)
- The idea of selling out is not so much a dollar amount, but are you sacrificing the service to the customers. You have to ask yourself, 'Are you betraying your users?'
- Jesse Sanchez, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
- I think the primary function of radio is that people want company.
- Elise Nordling, The Future of Radio, SXSW 2006
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