"In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either."
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"Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever."
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"Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me."
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"Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin."
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""Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana."
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"The course of true anything never does run smooth."
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"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."
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"No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely."
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"Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it."
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"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
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"Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed."
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"When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties."
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"All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
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"We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy."
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"I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both"
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"The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos."
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"My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back.""
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"Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'."
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"To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men."
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"I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run."
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