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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

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Man Constitution Rich Expensive He

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.

Fear Balance Greed Behavior You Two

Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.

Life Age Decision Impossible Poverty

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.

Business Age Retire Show Business

If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen. But if they need someone else - like a goofy guy with bad hair who is just okay - then that's me. And finally, the other 2 percent who audition are geniuses that I could never touch.

Me Hair Someone Bad Never Okay

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Politics I Am Enough Know Out Loop

Most Americans are very responsible.

Responsible Most Very

You must remember I grew up around music. Three of my family were musicians.

Family Music Musicians Remember You

Old, deeply engrained systems take time to change, but we can't leave it to time.

Change Time Old Leave Take Systems

If I have a day off I will play golf.

Day Golf Play Will Off Play Golf

The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.

Chiang Kai-shek

Equality Unity World Rest Revolution

It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people do.

People Think Way Single Individual

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

Government Environmental Think Year

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