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«In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.»
Author: Alfred A. Montapert
(Author)
| Keywords:
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«Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen»
Author: John Marshall
(Founder)
| About:
Government
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almost all, citizen, possessed, worthless
«Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Self-knowledge,
Trouble,
World
| Keywords:
abilities, all the way, almost all, frailties, ninety, percent, Strangers, virtues, woe
«Kathleen Kelly: Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.»
«Like almost all others began with metaphysical discussions. The theory has advanced but the practical science is still in its infancy and the modern statesman is constantly short of facts on which he can base his speculations.»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
advanced, almost all, discussions, infancy, modern science, speculations, statesman
«I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
abolition, abolition of slavery, almost all, civil, civil rights, complaining, confess, deprived, deprived of, Enemy of the state, equals, freeman, freemen, Negroes, obliged, races, raised, revolt, show off, southern, Southern states, speedily, The Whites, warding, ward off, whites
«Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
almost all, analyze, business school, data, executives, graduates, graduating, scientists, totally, unfortunately
«I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression»
Author: Evelyn Waugh
| Keywords:
aesthetic, almost all, repress, repressed, repressing, The Conclusion
«I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| Keywords:
almost all, black-and-blue, black spot, blue, Blue in, furniture, intimate, spot
«If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
almost all, amazed, eliminate, Englishman, gambling, mostly, shared, smoking
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