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 I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both; and I am sure it promotes their happin
  Thomas Jefferson

 I have found [winners] waiting at the door for me at 8 a.m. the next day, and sometimes winners wait months to call. For a jackpot this size, they usually wait at least a few days. . . . We encourage them to consider what is happening to their lives.

 I have great admiration for IIT and their coaches. They don't get the type of players that the rest of the conference gets, but they came back to take the lead against us in the second half. There is no quit in those kids, and I admire them for that.

 I have lived long enough, and had experience enough of the conduct of governments and people, nations and courts, to be convinced that gratitude, friendship, unsuspecting confidence, and all the amiable passions in human nature, are the most dangerou

 I have mud all along the front of my house. There are inches of dirt inside my window sills, and they're always shut. We can't even open our garage, the dirt is so deep. I rent my house and my carpets are ruined. I'm not going to get my deposit back.

 I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards, but when I was notified that I had won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Mr de Klerk, I was deeply moved. The Nobel Peace P
  Nelson Mandela

 I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the v
  Andrew Carnegie

 I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the v
  Andrew Carnegie

 I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

 I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.
  E. F. Schumacher

 I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book - though it would be foolish of me not to consider the possibility that I might have seen it decades ago and that its structure and some of its language imprinted somewhere on my subconscious.

 I have no recollection of ever seeing Ms. Barrett's book -- though it would be foolish of me not to consider the possibility that I might have seen it decades ago and that its structure and some of its language imprinted somewhere on my subconscious.

 I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur
  Daniel J. Boorstin

 I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as
  Thomas Jefferson

 I have spoken to every merchant around the square, telling them the square would be closed from 4 to 8:30 p.m.. Every merchant said he or she appreciates the opportunity to keep later hours and said their sales increase during the Rend Lake Car Show.


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