A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert
Recitation: by Male by Female
We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.
Robert Kennedy
MenManWorldLossDignityLiving
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
Robert Morgan
TimeUnexpectedYouPowerfulChoice
My first love was basketball.
Stan Smith
LoveBasketballFirstFirst Love
When I was in college, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.'
Tom Lehrer
GirlWordsCollegeYouNowSay
The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.
Rosemary Mahoney
CalmSlowFindIslandBecomeHigh
The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary that the central banks in the world should control a little bit the banks' financing because they cannot bypass a certain range of leverage.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
ControlWorldFinancialEndTax
China has always been very hospitable, but we can choose who enters our house. We could not allow any companies to enter China and make money while hurting the country.
Lu Wei
MoneyChooseHouseCountryChina
If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
BelieveNobodySalaryI BelieveSame
My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom.
Lloyd Alexander
FreedomGreatImaginationMeSense
My contribution is the romance and the warmth. The love songs.
Christine McVie
LoveContributionRomanceWarmth
When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed. One night, as I did that, there was this gigantic spider next to my pillow. I hit the bed and bounced straight back up When I turned the light back on, it was already gone. I could not sleep in my room for days.
Brian Krause
LightSleepDoorNightStandDark
I declare an end to my day by removing my phone from my bedroom and putting it in a phone charging bed.
Arianna Huffington
DayEndPhoneBedBedroomCharging
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