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• You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

  Douglas Adams

  Wise, Funny Life, Short Life

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.716, Pan Macmillan

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• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  The Screwtape Letters ch. 25 (1941)

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• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Lying, Duty

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.447, Courier Dover Publications

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. Judy Garland.

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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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• If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Failure

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• No exchange rate for the confidence of youth.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Youth

  Elizabeth Strout (2013). “The Burgess Boys”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.

  William Davis

  Sports, Jumping, Climbing

  William Davis (2014). “Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health”, p.88, Rodale

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• Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

  Anton Chekhov

  Clothes, Soul, Excellence

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• To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for carbon emissions. We're at $30 a tonne, so we're already double that. But our economy is growing at a faster rate - three per cent of GDP is our projected growth in British Columbia.

  Christy Clark

  Government, Talking, Gdp

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Students are suffering under incredibly high tuitions and high student loan interest rates. They graduate from school, and they're having a very difficult time finding a job. They don't feel as though there are honest leaders who are listening to them, and who will be a part of the solution.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Jobs, School, Leader

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Well the thinking is we have the highest tax rate in the world. In the entire world, we have the highest tax rate. There's gridlock in Washington because there's no leadership. So what I'm doing is a large tax cut especially for the middle class and they're gonna- we're going to have a dynamic country. We're going to have dynamic economics. And it's going to be something really special. And people are going back to work.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If you have credit card debt and credit card companies continue to close down the cards, what are you going to do? What are you going to do if they raise your interest rates to 32 percent? That's five times higher than what your kid is going to pay in interest on a student loan. Get rid of your credit card debt.

  Suze Orman

  Kids, Cards, Credit

  "Debt vs. debt: Which loans do I pay off first?". "Today" Interview, www.today.com. May 6, 2009.

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• We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.

  Christine Lagarde

  Taken, Years, Numbers

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

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• Men tend to leave their financial adviser at a single-digit-percent rate in any given year. And women leave their husband and their joint financial adviser in the year after their spouse's death at a rate of greater than 70 percent - seven-zero.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Zero, Husband, Men

  "Venus Williams And Sallie Krawcheck Want Women To Invest". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 2016.

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• Seventy-five percent of voters now [in September 2016], according to the latest poll, want third-party candidates included in the debate. We have the highest disapproval and distrust rates ever in our history for these two presidential candidates, which the system is doing everything it can to force down our throats.

  Jill Stein

  Party, Two, Presidential

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

  Bill Mollison

  Together, Extinction, Enough

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit.

  Manmohan Singh

  America, Growth, India

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• The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.

  Manmohan Singh

  Technology, Opportunity, Thinking

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• India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

  Manmohan Singh

  Thinking, Growth, India

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• I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.

  Manmohan Singh

  Jobs, Moving, Mean

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• When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.

  Manmohan Singh

  Way, Firsts, Income

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• India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.

  Manmohan Singh

  Believe, India, Saving

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• We should note it is not illegal for the campaign to pay [Doanld] Trump owned businesses as long as they`re charging fair market rates. And while the optics are pretty stunning, we shouldn`t be surprised. Afterall, this is the guy that told Fortune magazine in 2000 it`s very possible I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.

  Chris Hayes

  Running, Long, Guy

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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