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Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#advancing #competing #demands #efforts #fiat

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#being #blood #defense #elsewhere #families

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#consists #craft #employing #genius #gift

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#applause #demand #hinders #means #our

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#called #find #good #hard #politicians

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#prize #pursuing #rapture #vanquished

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. ↗

— Maya Lin

#anything #because #deliberately #did #eclipsed

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry. ↗

— Henry Taylor

#fact #hope #industry #spur

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

#distance #landscape #life #like #live

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

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