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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" »George Walker Bush
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"industry of war is the industry of shame" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The hammer shatters glass but forges steel." »Assyrian Proverb
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"Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on." »Anderson H. Scruggs
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"Who can tell Men?s hearts? The purest comprehend Such contradictions, and can blend The force to bear, the power to feel, The tender bud, the tempered steel." »Hindu Drama
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"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement." »James Goldsmith
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"A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune." »Richard Whately
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"There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others." »Jean de la Bruyere
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"On a soft snow, even a sparrow leaves a trace; the important thing is to leave a trace on a steel plate!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Parents? affection is best shown by their teaching their children industry and self-denial." »Burmese Proverb
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"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth." »Chuck Norris
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"God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry." »Wilberforce
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"It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can't overestimate it!" »Steve Jobs
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"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." »Edmund Burke, Speech to the electors of Bristol. 3 Nov. 1774
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"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf. (to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band in Wales)" »Prince Phillip
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"Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult." »Samuel Johnson
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"There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end." »Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
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"Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel." »Andrew Schneider
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)" »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit." »Mark Twain
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"Never trust anybody who says 'trust me.' Except just this once, of course. - from steel Beach" »John Varley
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"If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened." »Newt Gingrich
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"Imagination, industry, and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination." »Ellen Terry
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"Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste, but the purse of the artisan?s industry can never get empty." »Sa?di
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"That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise." »Abraham Lincoln
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"I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields." »Henry Ford, 1934
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"From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone." »Barbara Ehrenreich
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"Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration." »Andrew Carnegie
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