Margins Quotes - Page 4

• Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when it comes to fair and workable details, democracy fails to completely meet the criteria enunciated by Lincoln by a rather wide margin.

  George Aiken

  Government, People, Democracy

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• Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Flower, Space

  1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).

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• The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

  Noam Chomsky

  College, People, Understanding

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.73, Soft Skull Press

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• I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

  Homer

  Moving, Forever, Arches

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• If you invest and don't diversify, you're literally throwing out money. People don't realize that diversification is beneficial even if it reduces your return. Why? Because it reduces your risk even more. Therefore, if you diversify and then use margin to increase your leverage to a risk level equivalent to that of a nondiversified position, your return will probably be greater.

  Jeff Yass

  People, Risk, Use

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• Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called as members of the Church to keep going to the margins of our society. The homeless, the starving, parentless children, people with AIDS, our emotionally disturbed brothers and sisters - they require our first attention.

  Henri Nouwen

  Brother, Children, People

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• Being Christian without the Church doesn't make sense. That's why the great Paul VI, said that the most absurd dichotomy is loving Christ without the Church. To listen to Christ, but not the Church. To be with Christ, but stay at the margins of the Church. It's not possible. It's an absurd dichotomy.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Church, Absurd

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• Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Queens, Wall, College

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.563, Open Road Media

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• The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.

  Paul Theroux

  Morning, Dark, Lakes

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.'

  Michael J. Fox

  Science, Thinking, Errors

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• You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.

  Samuel Beckett

  Looks, Misery, Speechless

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Talking, Greed, Excess

  "He's all the rage" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2002.

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• He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the hit for a day or two. He has to give a big speech in defense of capitalism, and that will elevate, I think, this race above this tactical back and forth, which I do think he's on the margin of losing.

  William Kristol

  Crazy, Thinking, Eight

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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Believe, Media

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• I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

  George Ryan

  Thinking, Errors, Support

  "Death penalty officially ends in Illinois". www.wbez.org. July 1, 2011.

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• I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

  Vinod Khosla

  Opportunity, Strategy, Faster

  "Interview: Vinod Khosla Is On The Hunt For Great Technologies". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. September 12, 2009.

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• The margin between success and drama is fractional.

  Jacky Ickx

  Drama

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• It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

  Chris Cleave

  Athlete, Years, Different

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• Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

  Christine Baranski

  Errors, Wire, Acting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

  Caprice Bourret

  Thinking, Here I Am, Lists

  "My nine to five: Caprice Bourret" by Deany Judd, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.

  Ron Chernow

  Down And, Percent

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• I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Two

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• True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

  P. T. Barnum

  Clothes, Dresses, Income

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• There is just no way that I can understand in God's green earth that an airline could undertake with its normal procedures the operation of the Space Shuttle. . . . You don't put parachutes on airliners because the margin of safety is built into the machine. The 727 airplanes we fly are proven vehicles with levels of safety and redundancy built in. The shuttle is a hand-made piece of experimental gear.

  Frank Borman

  Airplane, Moon, Space

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• Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Funny, God, Humorous

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.354

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