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One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater than the distance from 3 million to 5 million.


Eric Parslow

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GARY F EVANS... There are actually two lawsuits, one from 1996 and the one in 1999. Over time and between the two la...
DON HARPER What would normally cost $20 million-$30 million we can do for $1 million,
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LEWIS N. ROE We weren't going to go over $1 million.
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GARY F EVANS... To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run w...
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LINDA BROWN The free-carried interest is capped at US$1 million.
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LARRY LANGFORD The number of Hispanic college graduates increased by 806,000 from approximately 3.6 million to 4.4 ...
BOB JORDAN Our goal is to collectively raise and contribute at least $1 million in aid to the victims.
BILLY HUNTER Our goal is to collectively raise and contribute at least $1 million in aid to the victims.
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DON ZIMMER In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business...
CEDRIC RICHMOND The cost of preparing for the onset of a hurricane is about $1 million per one mile of coastline.
MARK MORAN I try to wear $1 million a day. At least.
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CHERYL MILLION When we agreed to provide $5 million for Phase 1, we wanted to be sure that Phase 1 would be complet...
LYN TANGEN For each 1 percent pay raise, is about $600 million -- so $1 billion just won't cut the mustard.
IKE SKELTON old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history
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DAVID KIRKPATRICK We thought the $3 million to $10 million area was underserved,
DAVID NUSSBAUM We're going to hold the average to as close to $1 million as we can.
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GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
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GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL This is a matter of principle. I wouldn't sell for $1 million.
JOE HORNEY The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are ge...
DIRK BENEDICT The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO To have three separate $1 million donations to the campaign before the official public announcement ...
JOEL WOHL A million miles from nowhere, is better than going nowhere, a million times.
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WAYNE LEWELLEN It will probably add $8-10 million to the lifetime gross of the picture, ... We'll be close to $5 mi...
WAYNE LEWELLEN The numbers need to be $1 million less than they are. The board needs to take a stand against these ...
LARRY SNOW We could have issues with the scoreboard, ... The scoreboard is a $1 million piece of equipment.
BILL HOLMES We speak of 1 million people on the move at the moment,
JOAQUIM CHISSANO They have a little over 1 million square feet, with another building going up. We have close to 12 m...
JUDY MENDENHALL From Friday to now, we're counting about $1 million lost in terms of revenue. We're giving compensat...
LYNE LORTIE But the other two $1 million gifts were totally unanticipated.
JOEL WOHL We really thought starting the weekend that we would be somewhere between $16.5 million and just ove...
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MARC ABEND lies a distance even greater than the 8,000 miles from Washington to Baghdad.
GEORGE PACKER A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs.
RICHARD CASTLE I expect the repair will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 million.
ERIC GARVEY We've seen carriers spend $1 million a month to maintain a single mainframe.
CHAD HERSH When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
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DR. GIUSEPPINA FEINGOLD You would've thought we had given them $1 million.
DEBORAH LINDHOLM What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.
HAROLD JONES You are offering both of them $5 million from the proceeds of that transaction,
CARL LEVIN Every penny that we lower it, that's $5 million from the budget.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY This benefit amounts to $1 million in expense over time. It's a large amount of money.
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2. Mistreat others
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.
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ERIC HOFFER SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-eviden...
ERIC HOFFER The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the b...
ERIC HOFFER The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER