“ Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Certainly we would like to see the stock perform better,... I think it's up to management to do a better job of (achieving) consistent earnings and consistent improvement in earnings. ”
- Robert Palmer- Copy
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“ Virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. ”
- Mlle. de Scudery- Copy
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“ Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. ”
- Lady Gregory- Copy
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“ We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
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“ Even when a man acts ungrateful, it is often his benefactor who is more deserving of being labeled as disgraceful. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving. ”
- Maxwell Maltz- Copy
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“ The credit Union movement…It is a great movement, worthy of great deeds, deserving of great loyalty. ”
- Edward Filene- Copy
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“ Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ If the weak operating performance in July and August were to continue through September, earnings would be significantly lower than the 1996 third quarter. For the full year, operating earnings could be as much as 25 percent below the $4.50 per share operating earnings achieved in 1996. ”
- George Fisher- Copy
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“ Popular is a tricky word. People in large numbers don't always have the best taste. I prefer to concentrate on songs that are deserving, but slightly too arcane to be in every household - the also-rans, the misfits, the hidden jewels. ”
- Richard Thompson- Copy
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“ I am not interested in petty gossip; I am not interested in who sells the most records and the politicizing of economics that makes that possible. I am not interested in a body politic of the largely uninformed who attempt to politically designate certain people as deserving of wider recognition. ”
- Bill Dixon- Copy
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“ Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be composed of slaves, or the animal creation… nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse… ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. Unfortunately most of us are completely unaware of this fact and we do not monitor our thoughts with the care needed so that we can create in our lives the results we say we want… ”
- Sidney Madwed- Copy
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