- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Done Quotes
What gets done outlasts what gets said.
This page pairs personal accomplishment with bigger historical claims - singing described as among the toughest crafts to master, a role taken on with real pride, and a comparison of the printing press's impact to gunpowder's. See more in our Everything Quotes collection.
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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number of jobs created under President Barack Obama's stimulus turned out to be fewer than the number we would have had if the government had done nothing - according to the Obama administration's own analysis. So we got $9 trillion of debt with almost nothing to pay for it.
- Confiscation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many countries, even socialist Sweden and former communist Russia, have done away with their death taxes. They found the confiscation of wealth at death to be counterproductive.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel like what I've done are 'accomplishments.'
- Advanced Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some countries were able to turn their manufacturing operations into advanced technology areas. South Korea is a great example of this, and manufacturing there is done using advanced technological methods.
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- Nov 07, 2020