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I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#better #card #change #credit #credit card

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#anything #besides #bread #determined #eat

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. ↗

— Cornel West

#got #just #opinion #rather #reflects

It is not enough if you just live life as it comes to you like a floating leaf in a pond. Make use of the powers bestowed in you and soar like an eagle. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices. ↗

— Shirley Williams

#education #like #prices #really #running

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#beauty #dependence #energy #energy policy #foreign

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#accomplishment #anything #biggest #coaching #determination

Success is within reach of all people, but you can grasp it only when you realise the power within you. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them. ↗

— Jane Wyman

#guess #i #just #kind #marrying

We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#cease #commerce #contribute #countries #determined