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The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.


George F. Will

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CALVIN COOLIDGE Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely movi...
PETE DOMENICI Business is at the heart of America and always has been.
DAVID A. SIEGEL to the victor go the spoils
THE AMERICA America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.
NICKY OPPENHEIMER The President is the CEO of this business that we call America.
BILL ACKMAN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American busin...
FRAN TARKENTON Small business is America's engine of job creation.
SAM GRAVES Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY America is smarter than the politicians. America is demanding a change and not more of the same cron...
RYAN ZINKE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative cen...
SAUL BELLOW Small business owners really make America go, ... If it weren't for us supplying people with jobs, A...
MAGIC JOHNSON We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business t...
FOSTER FRIESS Mardi Gras will tell America that New Orleans is open for business.
BRIAN KERN The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Forgiveness is a powerful mental process that detoxifies our mental, spiritual and physical realms.
JACINTA MPALYENKANA In America, small business is a big deal.
BOB BEAUPREZ War is the business of barbarians.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE War is the business of barbarians
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
SUN TZU If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.
ARISTOTLE The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
ARISTOTLE The primary business of small business owners is business not technology.
DOUG LELAND The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.
HOWARD SCHULTZ It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
HEDY LAMARR Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.
ROBIN S. SHARMA Business is a combination of war and sport.
ANDRE MAUROIS The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any busin...
LAURENCE J. MCGINLEY The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any busin...
LAURENCE JOSEPH MCGINLEY The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any busin...
LAURENCE JOSEPH MCGINLEY The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...
JOHN LOCKE It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion...
MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK Allowance or dis-allowance of cloning – is the business of biologists, physicians and scientists, ...
ILKIN SANTAK I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH No competitor can beat a passionate team
LEON VAN DE PAS Contrary to public opinion,the West Is not saturated business wise,but if one can think uniquely & v...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA The business of America must be more than just business, and engagement must be through more than ju...
DAVID WU In the last couple of years, it has done incredible business in every major city across America. The...
CAMERON MACKINTOSH We have a very strong brand, all over Latin America. We built our business in a vacuum. We had no co...
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RANDY WEBER Today the business of business is becoming the constant invention of new business.
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F. F. BRUCE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-f...
WILL FERRELL I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH