Collis Potter Huntington famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
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I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.
-- Collis Potter Huntington
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.
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It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.
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She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
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Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
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We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
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