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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

~Edith Head

Topics: Addition Business Claiming Copied Costume Countless Couture Designers Ideas Original Original Ideas Other Part Things Unfortunately Were Years

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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Any Been Business Inferior Lead Much Never Observations Person Plan Seen Those Took Understanding Were Which Who

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Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: After Best Brief Business Could Death Fathers Founding Founding Fathers Franklin Go Got His House House Of Representatives James Known Listening Madison Months Mourning Notice Official Representatives Some Sort Then Tribute Two Voted Wear Without

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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Advance American Business Financial Financial System Going Home Home Ownership Need Oriented Ownership Prosper Sector System Toward

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A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Business Companies Enabling Freedoms Gave Great Having Historians Institutions System Transformation Typical Various Volumes Way Well Were Where Which Write

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You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: About Almost Black Business Children Dinner Dinner Table Disadvantaged Discussions Goes Growing Growing Up Hear Little Men Nations Neighborhoods Representation Sector Table Two Up Who You Young

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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

~Edmund White

Topics: Been Bohemia Burning Burning Desire Business Business World Choose Comfort Confess Desire Different Different Person Entirely Eyes Had Hard Impelled Justify Live Myself Never New New York Others Over Person Poverty Soft Straight Toward Turned Understand World Would Writing York

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My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.

~Edmund White

Topics: All Day All Night Business Day Father Go He Large Leave Night People Ran See Slept Staff Stayed Them Things Up Who Would

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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

~Edna Ferber

Topics: Back Bump Business Causing Dull Going Living Lonely Looking Looking Back Muscles Neck Past People Strains Way You Your

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The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Big Big Business Business Embrace Eyes Feast Legs More Most Much People Play Popular Run Serve Soccer Sport Switzerland Than Wants Watch Who World

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