Malcolm Rifkind famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.
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The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.
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You'd be surprised how much free time I have.
-- Malcolm Rifkind
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Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.
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People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are
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The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
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The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.
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