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• Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were coming out of the Dark Ages, were then adopting the value system of the people in the East, in the, of the oriental society.

  Malcolm X

  Dark, Europe, People

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Class

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Maybe in adopting an adolescent attitude you then take on the look of a young person.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Attitude, Looks, Young

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a kid, you're starting to grow up and want more freedoms. But if you have people who are absorbing and adopting religious principles and teachings, they start drawing these lines and creating confines in their life to live within certain lines.

  Mahershala Ali

  Religious, Growing Up, Teaching

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Together, Pieces, Might

  "Loftus on False and Implanted Memories". Interview with Alison George, www.patheos.com. September 13, 2013.

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• I am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for adopting the agnostic moniker? If "atheist" means someone who does not believe in God, then an atheist is what I am. But I detest all such labels. Call me what you like - humanist, secular humanist, agnostic, nonbeliever, nontheist, freethinker, heretic, or even bright. I prefer skeptic.

  Michael Shermer

  Atheist, Believe, Mean

  "Why I Am An Atheist" by Michael Shermer, michaelshermer.com. June 23, 2005.

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• I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting a machine, I do my utmost to make it malfunction. For me, to make a photograph is to make an anti-photograph.

  William Klein

  Opposites, Machines, Done

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• I could see myself adopting a kid someday. But, obviously, I'd prefer it to be aborted.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Kids, Someday

  Twitter post from May 10, 2010

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• The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

  Rafael Correa

  Sin, Socialism, Construction

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• Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever.

  Steven Pressfield

  Money, Attitude, Play

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.73, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills through all levels is of fundamental importance to both companies and countries.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Country, Skills, Example

  "Go Open Source Puts R3m Into Building Linux Channel". tectonic.co.za. January 30, 2006.

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• We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Fall, History

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• ...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development.
  These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges.
  Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice.
  And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.

  Caroline Myss

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Moving

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• The key thing is to invest in the future and what that means is when you're deploying technology or you're a technology business, is to make sure that you're keeping on the innovation cycle, where you're both creating and adopting the new business practices, and the new techniques in order to drive your business the right way.

  Reid Hoffman

  Mean, Technology, Order

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.

  Charles Stross

  Book, Writing, Technology

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• My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Home, Advice, Pet

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• We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.

  David Hilbert

  Philosophical, Believe, Self

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• Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination in his hands; and, second, the social environment with its power of adopting or rejecting both him and his gifts. Both factors are essential to change. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

  William James

  Hands, Two, Community

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.144, 谷月社

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• To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state is benevolent, governed by the loftiest intentions, adopting a defensive stance, not an actor in world affairs but only reacting to the crimes of others...If even the harshest of critics tacitly adopt these premises, then the ordinary person may ask, who am I to disagree?

  Noam Chomsky

  Ordinary, Doctrine, Inquiry

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• I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge."

  Cillian Murphy

  Being Yourself, Revenge, Night

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these dangers is the likelihood that hardliners would again gain the upper hand in the governing process in Tehran, and the moderates who have sought to end national and regional tensions would be marginalized, or worse.

  Richard A. Falk

  Hands, Iran, Would Be

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.

  Peter Lynch

  Routine, Investing, Rewards

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.

  Jared Diamond

  War, Musical, Majority

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• The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

  William Manchester

  Beach, Ocean, Elderly

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• Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

  Epictetus

  Attitude, Views, People

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