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“Here's a pointer culled from the careers of men who have attained notable success: Don't sit in your office during the hours prospects can be seen. Do your office work before or after the hours during which possible customers can be reached. This may mean adding an hour or two quite often to your day's work; but in times like this particularly, the securing of a satisfactory amount of business through the expenditure of an extra hour or two a day is not an unreasonable price to pay.”

Men May Mean Two Hours Pay Careers Amount Office Customers Extras Notable Unreasonable Prospects Expenditures Salesmanship Pointers Office Work

Author:B. C. Forbes

“I don't feel myself that I Know it all, but I have enough conceit to be successful. That observation was made by a businessman in his 30s who was making notable headway, although his path bristled with difficulties. Business places no premiums on shrinking violets. Employers prefer men who have self-assurance, forcefulness, go-aheadness, men who know their jobs and know that they know it.”

“The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;such as we see in the sexual attraction.”

Persons Strong Sex Attraction Egotism Notable

Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“With Republicans in control of the Senate for the first time since Barack Obama took office, the president may find it harder to appoint left-wing lawyers to judgeships. Whether he compromises on some of his nominees, including any to the Supreme Court, may depend on the willingness of the new Republican majority to engage the president on judicial philosophy.”

“That Republicans now control the Senate means, of course, that they control the confirmation process. Their majority enables them to stop an unacceptable nomination at various points: They can deny the nominee a committee hearing; they can vote the person down in committee; they can refuse to schedule a vote on a nomination sent to the floor; and the full Senate can vote to reject the nomination. The Republicans' majority status also strengthens their negotiating position with the White House, making it more likely that a mutually acceptable candidate will be chosen for a given seat.”

“How Obama approaches judicial selection - and how Republicans respond - now becomes an important story and will remain so until the Senate shuts down judicial confirmations, probably in the summer of 2016 if Senate custom in presidential-election years is followed.”

Ifs Years Important Stories Republican Approach Summer Election Presidential Customs Senate Selection Notable Judicial Confirmation Presidential Election Election Years

Author:Terry Eastland

“most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.”

Former Distinction Renewal Notable

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924

“Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.”

Book Spirit Pure Pity Purity Piety Notable Purification

Book:Hindu Dharma

Source: Hindu Dharma

“Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.”

Self Difficult Realizing Achievement Despite Vulnerable Aspiration Notable Dissatisfaction Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.”

Art Hard Artist Musician Mainstream Transgender Notable

Author:Willam Belli

“For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.”

Comparison Notable

Book:Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell

Source: Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell

“Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.”

Values Identity Objects Products Interaction Notable

Author:Brian Eno

“Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, "It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ." Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. "He was my model," Churchill said. "I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall."”

Years Humans Long Said Use Lasts Voice Style Taught Speech Models Meetings Notes Inspired Organs Speakers Notable Statesmen Amazement Human Voice

Author:William Bourke Cockran

“The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves.”

Trying Two Corruption Invention Exception Inventor Notable

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Made Different Character Would Be Able Effort Race Class Projects Empathy Racism Traditional Our Society Notable Obsessive Sectarianism Be Encouraged Different Races

Book:Screening history

Source: Screening history

“Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for anything beyond their own careers. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.”

Men Want Purpose Energy Ability Careers Politician Incredibles Charm Exception Appetite Notable

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been men who spend so much time with God as to make it a notable feature in their lives.”

Men World Has Beens Character Christ He Man Features Most Powerful Affected Notable Time With God

Book:Power Through Prayer

Source: Power Through Prayer

“One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.”

Knows Needs Law Order Process Subjects Aspect Democratic Notable Democratic Process

Author:Jeff Cooper

“President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.”

“There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness.”

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.”

Stills Country Christian Christianity Hell Crime Degrees Hundred Invention Our Country Bloody Notable Grabbing Prodigious Predatory

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“I thought a thread of notable quotes relating to coffee may be interesting.”

May Interesting Coffee Thread Notable

Author:Clark Gable

“The famous names throughout history-be they heroes or villains-if they accomplished anything notable, they were passionate. Passion is what drives those who accomplish momentous feats, for good or evil.”

Ifs Passion Evil Names Hero Passionate Accomplish Accomplished Villain Notable Feats

Author:Andrew Williams

“The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same.”

“Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.”

Hands Memories Photography Notable Gloves Epidemics

Book:Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz

Source: Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz

“I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people.”

People Thinking Want Trying Good Things Nba Notable Hooked

Author:Darryl Dawkins

“The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your [Hillary Clinton] damn e-mails!”

People Sick Tired Clinton Democrat Hearing Damn Candidates Mail Notable

Author:Bernie Sanders

“When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.”

Said Book Turns Novel New York Mines Sells Collections Chapters Colleagues Publishers Notable New York Times

Author:Julianna Baggott

“Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren't sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed like in DevilWearsPrada, but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy.”

Thinking Want Said Happens Jobs Young Levels Roles Example Models Gender Boss Role Models Young Women Editing Notable Editorials Savvy Straight Up Owning It

Author:Ann Friedman

“As an adult I've connected a lot with men over the Internet. Nothing seems really notable (pre-"Adrien Brody") except I went to London in July of 2010 and before I went I had a few men lined up to meet, two who made a large impact on me. Both were mentioned in "Adrien Brody."”

Men Made Two Seems Internet Adults Impact Connected London July Notable

Author:Marie Calloway

“Lying is common in social life, often done for benign purposes, seldom draws severe sanctions, and many of the most notable leaders, including the late Steve Jobs, were consummate prevaricators. Told with enough persistence and conviction, what was once untrue can become true, in a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of way.”

“A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life - and notable in that many have gone on to enormous success in their writing careers. Whether or not I had a lot to do with those success stories, I'm very proud and happy for my former students getting on the map.”

People Writing Has Beens Stories Careers Gone Changed Students Proud Enormous Former Maps Notable Changed My Life Success Stories Former Students

Author:Rob Roberge

“There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.”

Way Wells Long Bigs Lying Suffering Term Amount Rate Long Term Officials Unemployment Notable Unemployed Unemployment Rate Underemployed

Author:Jim Clifton

“And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity - it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.”

“Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.”

“I hear all the time that 'unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it.' When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth - the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real - then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't 'feeling' something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.”

People Real Feelings Reality Jobs House White Talking Wonder Class Streets Middle Media Wall Percent Quitting Middle Class White House Unemployment Good Job Notable Talking Heads

Author:Jim Clifton

“Yet another video has emerged of MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber calling Americans 'stupid,' and bragging about how the Affordable Care Act's drafters had to deceive the public in order to pass the law.”

Care Law Order Stupid Calling Video Professors Architect Deceiving Notable Obamacare Affordable Bragging Mit Affordable Care Act

Author:Alexander Viets Griswold

“Fox News' Megyn Kelly was the first to air the video on her program, 'The Kelly File.'”

Firsts Air News Program Video Foxes Files Notable Fox News

Author:Alexander Viets Griswold

“Kelly reported, 'more video has surfaced showing this was not the first time Mr. Gruber called the American people stupid in an 'off-the-cuff' remark. In this next clip from also last year, Mr. Gruber explains how Democrats played with the language of the Obamacare law so that it achieved their goals, by again, fooling the stupid public.'”

People Years Firsts Lasts Law Next Language Goal Stupid First Time Democrat Video Last Year Remarks Notable Obamacare Clip Cuffs

Author:Alexander Viets Griswold

“She then played a short 5-second clip of Gruber, saying the following, that a part of the Obamacare passed because 'the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.'”

People Differences Stupid Following Notable Obamacare Clip

Author:Alexander Viets Griswold

“As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was involved.”

Two House White Secret Military Involved Members Following Agents Administration Officials White House Denied Dozen Scandal Prostitution Notable Colombia Secret Service

Author:Carol D. Leonnig

“But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member - yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.”

Shows Government House Given White Rooms Team Information Members Details Presidential Interviews Hotel White House Guests Documents Senior Notable Suggesting Hotel Rooms Team Member

Author:Carol D. Leonnig

“The information that the Secret Service shared with the White House included hotel records and firsthand accounts - the same types of evidence the agency and military relied on to determine who in their ranks was involved.”

House White Secret Records Military Information Type Involved Evidence Accounts Determine Agency Hotel White House Notable Secret Service

Author:Carol D. Leonnig

“Fox News may be demolishing its more liberal cable news rivals in the ratings but to Democrats it's still the bogeyman. That's why President Obama took the opportunity to criticize the network during a speech defending his economic record at Northwestern University today. But in doing so, the president not only demonstrated the weakness of his position but also why he doesn't understand Fox's appeal.”

“If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable.”

Ifs Reality Movement Office Notable Adrenaline Virtual Reality

Author:Palmer Luckey

“Look at the history of civil laws in our world and the source from which they emerged, and you will see that the vast majority of them arose directly from, or where based in principle on, Roman Canon Law, or the laws of other religious origin. Sharia is another notable example.”

World Looks Law Religious Principles Example Source Majority Our World Notable Canon Sharia

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Extroverts are more attuned to social rewards, so they are more likely to flash a smile for effect. A notable exception are introverts - like me - whom I call "socially accessible" introverts. We have been trained well to smile and nod, which can place a burden on our processing efforts.”

Wells Has Beens Social Effort Effects Rewards Burden Like Me Exception Flash Introvert Notable Processing Extroverts

Author:Laurie Helgoe

“Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the volume (in both senses) of instant reaction; so divisive, it makes Brexit, the Labour leadership and the US Presidential election seem lesser ruptures.”

Years Facts Seems Election Senses Reactions Presidential Instant Labour Bob Volume Shocking Dylan Notable Nobel Presidential Election Rupture Us Presidential

Author:David Bennun

“Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time.”

People Ifs Feelings Happens Found Community Rocks Identity Battle Concepts Towns Strikes Abstract Hippie Formation Notable Mills Good Feeling Waterfalls Our Town Concept Of Love

Author:Dar Williams

“Certain kinds of typeface design and typographic design are designed to persuade: we can make this company look modern if we use a crisp sans serif typeface, or we can make this restaurant look like its been around forever if we use typefaces and layout styles that have been around forever too. But there are other categories, and ballot design is one of them, where the goal should be to be purely functional. There have been notable failures in this category.”

Ifs Should Looks Kind Has Beens Use Certain Goal Company Forever Modern Style Design Restaurants Categories Notable Ballots Crisps Layout Typefaces

Author:Michael Bierut

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