"I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and you're good, you get 'yes' after 'yes'. When you're slightly off, you get rejection after rejection. It was one of the greatest jobs I ever had. It was brutal."

-- David Nevins

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“We weep and laugh, as we see others do.”

Source : Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.157
“Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.
“So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.180, Lulu.com
“When we think about living donor transplant, what we're banking on is the ability of the liver to regenerate itself. Now, it's not the same sort of regeneration we think about with the starfish where we cut off the arm and it grows a new arm. With the liver, what happens is the remaining liver gets bigger, and your body knows the size of the liver that it needs, and when it recognizes that there is not enough liver, it sends nutrients and signals to the liver and says "get bigger."”

Source : Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org
“Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.”

Source : Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”
“The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.”

Source : "'You Should Not Expect A Miracle'". TIME Interview, www.cnn.com. January 26, 1998.
“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesnâ€™t need any more gray. On the other hand, we canâ€™t get enough color. Mediocrity is nobodyâ€™s goal and perfection shouldnâ€™t be either. Weâ€™ll never be perfect. But remember these three Pâ€™s: Passion + Persistence = Possibility.”
“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.”

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