Alan Greenspan Quotes, Years Quotes, Important Quotes

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

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We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Years Quotes , People Quotes

Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Passion Quotes , Years Quotes

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Determination Quotes , Years Quotes

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

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Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

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In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.

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I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

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To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

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We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.

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Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Years Quotes , Feet Quotes

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Loneliness Quotes , Years Quotes

Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nature. No one is going to be able to take the pounding a running back has to take over a 10- or 12-year career and not lose a step.

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One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment.

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1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Dad Quotes , Years Quotes

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Glowing Quotes , Years Quotes

I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

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I'll do at least one action film every year because of my fans. This is my promise to them.

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