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“Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.”
Source : Interview with Ross Simonini, logger.believermag.com. May 15, 2012.
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“Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.”
Source : Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, August 1, 1955.
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“Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet.”
Source : Ronald J. Sider (1977). “Rich Christians in an age of hunger: a Biblical study”, IVP Books
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“Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly.”
Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.206, Simon and Schuster
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“the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent the best of who we are and the finest standard of what we are meant to become. This is the power that last places hold over me, and why I have found it impossible to resist their pull.”
Source : Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936
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“In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.”
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“Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?”
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“Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.”