Quote by Robert Hall
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. – Robert Hall

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Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy. – Robert Hall

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Health
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War is nothing less than a temporary repeal of the principles of virtue. It is a system out of which almost all the virtues are excluded, and in which nearly all the vices are included. – Robert Hall

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War
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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. – Robert Hall

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By giving people the power to share, were making the world more transparent. – Mark Zuckerberg

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. – Don DeLillo

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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love. – Nelson Rockefeller

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Keep a mid course between two extremes. – Ovid

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Architecture is politics. – Mitchell Kapor

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From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. Well all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. – Jon Meacham

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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. – Edith Head

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