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
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The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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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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Did you see Howard Dean ranting and raving? Here is a little tip Howard; cut back on the Red Bull. ~David Letterman
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. ~Indian Proverb
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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He who is not ashamed does whatever he likes. ~Arabic Proverb
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