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“Sometimes we have to be hard on ourselves. We've got to get on our case, if we are being sloppy, lazy, and indulgent.”

Ifs Sometimes Hard Cases Buddhism Balance Lazy Sloppy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.”

Ifs Reason Cases Modern Wind Balance Equal Obvious Combination Strings Interpretation Satisfying Composition Orchestra Adapted Modern Music

Author:John Philip Sousa

“Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.”

Process Cases Information Balance Valuable Corporate Sheets Entry Hardware Balance Sheets

Author:Grace Hopper

“The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.”

Ifs Way Trying Littles Ideas Ends Would Be Fall Process Cases Source Keys Balance Code Pens Artificial Intelligence Artificial Explosions Accelerate Rewriting Tipping Tilt Tipping Point

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.”

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time.”

Cases Economy Position Balance Enron

Author:Kenneth Lay

“If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.”

Ifs Real Government Care Politics Interest Liberty Cases Economy Virtue Balance Take Care Liberalism Possessed Multitudes Estates Balance Of Power

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power in the Middle East. That is the case, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a threat.”

Mean States Growth United Mistake Cases United States Virtue Middle Balance Threat Iraq East Iran Middle East Balance Of Power

Author:Trita Parsi

“I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.”

People Thinking Long Two Running Deals Situation Cases Support Balance Long Runs

Author:Al Sharpton

“It's never a good idea to ask a man on a tight-rope how he keeps his balance: a) he would probably fall off and b) he probably doesn't know what the muscles are called in any case.”

Knows Men Ideas Fall Asks Cases Balance Muscles Good Ideas Rope

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our balance sheet as calculated are wrong. But it's the standard way of doing it. It's holy writ. The SEC wants us to do it that way, and we'll do it that way, and I'll explain why I think it's wrong and shareholders can read it and see whether they agree with my logic or don't.”

Thinking Way Want Years Next Cases Written Figures Balance Holy Standards Logic Agree Reports Sheets Sections Want U Explaining Next Year Annuals Shareholders Balance Sheets Annual Reports

Author:Warren Buffett

“Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.”

“I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests.”

World Should Believe Used I Believe Interest Cases Security Balance Strikes Around The World National Security Assistance

Author:John Sununu