"I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short."

-- Terry Teachout

#Graduation Quotes #People Quotes #Luck Quotes

“You seldom hear any young artists in country music.”
“The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.”
“If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.”

Source : Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”
“If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Philip. Polynices. Antigone. Virginia. Agamemnon. Orestes. Rosmunda. Octavia. Timoleon. Merope. Mary Stuart”
“There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.”
“The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.73

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