Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. ~Jonathan Carroll
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. ~Dorothy Thompson
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone. ~William Beveridge
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You can trust the promise of this opening. Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning. That is at one with your life's desire. ~John O'Donohue
#quotes #john-o-donohue #desire

As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
#quotes #thorstein-veblen #human

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
#quotes #lauren-oliver #thinking #death

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
#quotes #ralph-marston #expectations #performance

I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. ~Martin Cruz Smith
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow. ~Barry Sheene
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation. ~Nate Silver
#quotes #nate-silver #eating #vacation #south-america

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life. ~Adam Brody
#quotes #adam-brody #career #life #love

When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete.
#quotes #dan-o-brien #sports #work #personality

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. ~Seth Godin
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The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
#quotes #nikola-tesla #nuclear

You think you are prepared. You think you have done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then, whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that will knock your little world off its axis. Something that will either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos. ~James Michael
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life. ~Katherine Jenkins
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For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
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Our state has a balanced budget. We have to live within our means in the state of Wyoming. I was in the state senate. This country needs a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. ~John Barrasso
#quotes #john-barrasso #government

Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
#proverbs #native-american-proverbs #chance #change #progress

Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
#quotes #anthony-burgess #language #translation #design #culture

The rock-star thing became very destructive, like, wow. I didn't know what I was doing. I just kind of became that thing. The hair, that rock-star kind of lifestyle, just living a dream. It kind of took over. It started out very innocent and then I turned into a cartoon character. And I started to feel like a cartoon character. ~Pamela Anderson
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
#quotes #daniel-burnham #architecture #work #hope