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The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. ↗

#deserve #only #opportunity #than #the only thing

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#before #christmas #clock #closing #day

The housing market will get worse before it gets better. ↗

— James Wilson

#better #get #gets #housing #housing market

In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#fact #i #i am #in fact #know

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#around #cap-and-trade #costs #dangerous #everything

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#better #his #ideas #life #lived

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#brings #defeat #ever #happen #must

It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do. ↗

— Robert Henri

#better #else #show #spite #stick

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. ↗

— John Calvin

#confidence #intelligence #our #out #own

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse. ↗