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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Blessed, Mean

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle

Study, Means, Three

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Steve Jobs

Beautiful, Though, Nobody

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
Mitt Romney

Leadership, Excuses, Taking

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Children, Easy, Lives

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs

Good, Country, Place

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw

Success, Time, Mistakes

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.
Michael Jordan

Money, Live, Bad

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

Hate, Him, Soul

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
Doug Coupland

Person, Lazy, Blame

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy

Sorry, Him, Wish

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
Edgar Allan Poe

Dreams, Hope, True

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
Charlie Sheen

Life, Business, Dad

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
Eminem

Time, Money, Try

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
Eminem

Long, Keep, Seriously

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol

Good, Money, Best

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
Colin Powell

Forward, Writing, Country

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver

Excuses, Percent, Failures

I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you're really making a decision about your behavior for the day. Like if you put on flipflops, you're saying: 'Hope I don't get chased today.' 'Be nice to people in sneakers.'
Demetri Martin

Hope, Morning, Nice

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford

Time, Business, Goes

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Steve Jobs

Money, Pretty, Industry

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack Obama

Greed, Country, Special

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner

Life, Change, Best

We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.
Steve Jobs

Amazing, Hard, Before

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

Truth, Die, Light

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
Barack Obama

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Steven Wright

Someone, Two, Thoughts

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

United, Finished, Product

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Abdul Kalam

Happiness, After, Running

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
Will Rogers

Stuff, Land, Buy

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