Firm Quotes - Page 3

• Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the IRS has no control over tax information once it's been sent to India or another country.

  Melissa Bean

  Country, Preparation, India

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• I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.

  George Alec Effinger

  Real, Mirrors, Looks

  George Alec Effinger (2017). “The Budayeen Cycle: When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Struggle, Liberty, Events

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.297, Library of America

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• ...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm (:)...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.

  John Yudkin

  Jobs, Dark, People

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• Right now everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love and that is wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish. This eight dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of That's Mine, This Is Yours.

  Harry Burns

  Eight, Phones, Dollars

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• A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

  Clay Shirky

  Successful, Effort, Cost

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.32, Penguin UK

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• I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

  Michael Symon

  Gob, Stuff, Buying

  "Top Chefs Share Their Mothers’ Best Lessons" by Allison Adato, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Doing begets more doing. It sounds simple, but I’m a firm believer that action can solve so many worries, and just powering through, no matter what, can give you the confidence you need when you feel like you’ve got nothing to offer.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Simple, Giving, Worry

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• The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historical research. We find, then, that there is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or another.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Ideas, Historical

  Paul Feyerabend (1975). “Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge”, Verso

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• Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

  George Carlin

  Running, Independent, Media

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• To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

  Don Tapscott

  Successful, Organization, Needs

  Don Tapscott (2014). “The Digital Economy ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence”, p.252, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

  Michelle Sagara

  Heartless, Matter, Belief

  Michelle Sagara (2012). “Cast in Peril”, p.118, LUNA

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• Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.

  Edward Rutledge

  Defense, Posture, Exertion

  "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 269, 1997.

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• The expression of our truth is an ancient action through which we actually discover our place in the world; the true shape of our being and our individuality. It is how we create firm boundaries and allow others to know who we are and what we value.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Expression, Individuality

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• It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Hands, Nuclear Disarmament, Weapons

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• I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know - veggies, fruit and salad - then when I get home I'll have something else.

  Ariana Grande

  Home, Dining, Salad

  "Ariana Grande: 'I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding'". Interview with Lyndsey Gilmour, www.mirror.co.uk. December 5, 2014.

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• With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.

  Harry S. Truman

  Heart, Humanity, Victory

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• We all need a firm sense of identity.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Identity, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

  Norm Dicks

  Believe, Government, Competition

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• I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

  Elisabetta Canalis

  Married, Believer, Being Married

  "George Clooney, Elisabetta Canalis Call it Quits" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2011.

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• You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving Up, Decision, Abuse

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• A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

  David Duke

  Jobs, Hard Work, Fighting

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• The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood.

  Paul P. Harris

  Foundation, Rotary, Built

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• My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Parent, Done, Homework

  "Being A Teenager In The White House, From Chelsea Clinton", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2014.

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• My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

  Dick Bruna

  Father, Ends, Publishers

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