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🇺🇸Wallace Stevens

Business

1879–1955

"To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems."

"We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world."

"Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out ways for teams to communicate less with each other, not more."

"AHHHH!!! I won, I won, I can't believe it! Puta que pariu!."

"Most people never see the trap they are in."

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🇺🇸Henry Ford

Business

"Nothing is particularly hard if you subdivide it into small jobs."

"Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be."

"Free Press is a Marxist organization, and it— the FCC is now riddled with Free Press people. The White House, riddled with people that are taking phone calls from Free Press."

"St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is."

"If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?"

"It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning."

"Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins."

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🇧🇷Steve Jobs

Business

"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do."

"News — communicating news and ideas, I guess — is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels."

"Few people in this country have been able to live the American Dream to the extent that I have … Neither political party has effectively addressed the issues that concern the American people."

"That doesn’t mean there’s not still a lot of pain and there won’t be pain for a while, but that basically was, we’ve now put out rules to get back to work. Trump’s now back in charge. It’s not the doctors."

"Confirm . We know what a smartphone looks like and does. It's not the fault of Tim Cook, but it's not an area where there will be any more innovation."

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🇺🇸Don Miller (author)

Business

1923–1993

"I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up."

"Everyone in the family wears fur except me. … Kim wore fur last night. I told her you cannot wear fur. It's embarrassing."

"If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden."

"Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward."

"Everyone truly does have God given gifts... Find them and use them, and don't let anyone else tell you that you are less than who you are."

"Christ! Is this fucking Longyearbyen eller what?"

"Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog.Throw things away and love will bring them back,again, and again, and again.But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.And in return, love loves you and never stops."

"Don’t take an eye on the short term but think long."

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Adelaide Anne Procter

"If greater-than-human artificial general intelligence is invented without due caution, it is all but certain that the human species will be extinct in very short order."

"Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. Computers simply cannot do that."

"I think that this stupid Polish society, this fucking bunch of imbeciles who voted for these whores cockroaches from PiS is some fucking misunderstanding!"

"Love is being honest with yourself at all timesbeing honest with the other person at all timestelling, listening, respecting the truthand never pretendingLove is the source of reality"

"Belief, Follow your Instincts and Never Give Up!"

"One’s life is one’s faith when you commit your life to Christ, if you really want to be a Christian it will cost you your life. I learned that from a man who wrote books."

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🇺🇸John D. Rockefeller

Business

1839–1937

"I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

"A gentleman holds my hand.A man pulls my hair.A soulmate will do both."

"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"

"'If you ask any of the women we've worked with, some of them would say it's a very tough journey, but I don't think any of them would say we'd been patronising."

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