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It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
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A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
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My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
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Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
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Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
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Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
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The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things. Nick Hanauer
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We are pleased with the strong earnings growth and ROE (return on equity) of 23.9% in the first quarter. Gordon Nixon
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We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,
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There are some disappointments in earnings and obviously Hewlett-Packard is a big one.
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We still think we are on track to see earnings growth of 23 percent for the quarter.
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We're going to see volatile markets for the next little while with all this uncertainty regarding earnings. We need to see a general improvement in the tone of earnings and especially with guidance.
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What we're looking at generally is whether the market can get past these levels. We think there's enough strong sentiment and stimulus in the pipeline for that to happen and that the earnings will ultimately lead the market, but it's a process, and it's going to take time.
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We're just winding down the year, ending the year with these sort of small, middling gains, which to me makes sense because you've had opposing factors this year. On the one hand you've had good earnings and a robust economy, but on the other hand, you've been fighting the Fed. The two canceled each other out.
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Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money. Diane Cilento
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True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I never found it frustrating not speaking. David Selby
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The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them. David McCullough
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It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out. Catherine Bell
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The Post found out about this late yesterday afternoon. They had no inkling whatsoever a scandal was brewing.
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We struggled with Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson but we found a way to help each other and I think we did a good job tonight. Mehmet Okur
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We are making a friendly offer to Reynolds, ... We were shocked when we found out that Alcoa had made its offer and we assembled ourselves as quickly as we could to put together this proposal.
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Emotion is the foundation of reason. David Brooks
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I am the donation to the foundation. Baron Davis