"The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle."

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Lincoln Steffens

#Honor Quotes #Principles Quotes #Credit Quotes

“I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.”
“Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.”
“That which you manifest is before you.”
“Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.”
“Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.”
“Recruiting at Iowa has never been easy, and I don't think it ever will be. Our biggest challenge has always been to get people to visit our campus. If we can get them here, I feel like we give ourselves a chance because we do have a lot to offer.”
“It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.”
“Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.”

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