"The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle."
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"Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began to change in the industrial age, reaching a peak in 1928, after the forceful destruction of the labor movement and crushing of independent thought. Largely as a result of labor mobilization, inequality declined during the Great Depression, a tendency continuing through the great growth period of regulated capitalism in the early postwar decades."
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"The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth."
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"How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?"
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"We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses."
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"The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story."
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"Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President."
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"Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated."
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"By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!"
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"It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly."
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"Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up."
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"It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the bottom end of the scale."
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"With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional."
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"The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging."
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"Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment."
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"Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth."
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"You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day."
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"Our deepest calling is not to grow in our knowledge of God. It is to make disciples. Our knowledge will grow -- the Holy Spirit, Jesus promised, will guide us into all truth. But that's not our calling, it is His. Our calling is to prepare the world for Christ's return. The world is not ready yet. And so, we go about introducing a dying world to the Savior of Life. Anything we do toward our own growth must be toward that end."
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"I think the reason that the Trump economic agenda is beneficial is, he is doing the right things. He wants to see growth, he wants to see to lower taxes, he wants to see this cash pile sitting outside the US return to the US. All of these things I think will be good for the US economy, and as I've said, if the US economy grows, the global economy benefits hugely."
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"It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow."
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