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• I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

  Maud Newton

  Procrastination, Thinking, Urgency

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• Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

  John Stossel

  Giving Up, People, Medical

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• Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.

  Kathy Acker

  Writing, Expression, Machines

  Source: bombmagazine.org

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• Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves. But to allow you to trust not only yourself but trust others means - is what's required to be vulnerable, and to have that kind of trust takes courage.

  Herbie Hancock

  Wall, Mean, People

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

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• A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Yield, Order, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.

  Ian McLeod

  People, Over You, Comedy

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• I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

  Phyllis Rose

  Believe, Needs, Literature

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• The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Writing, Sublime, Lessons

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• Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.

  Dean Radin

  Fall, Brain, Mind

  Dean Radin (2009). “Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.

  John Haines

  School, Independent, Night

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• ...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology  to permeate every aspect of our lives.  In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety...  While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.

  Morris Berman

  Fate, Technology, Two

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• Instead of allowing ourselves to be led and trapped by our feelings, we should let them disappear as soon as they form, like letters drawn on water with a finger.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Water, Feelings, Letters

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• Exercise and good nutrition helped make me what I am today and are critical in allowing me stay on top of my game.

  Chris Paul

  Exercise, Games, Today

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• The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  Country, Israel, Years

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.

  Howard Hughes

  Mistake, Hands, Perfect

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• All I wanted to do was put together one of the best home maths systems in the world, and that's what we've done. I've loved numbers since I was two or three, and I get really excited about them. Now, I'm allowing myself to get excited about things. If you're doing it for a TV network or any major corporation, you have to put a lid on it a little.

  Carol Vorderman

  Home, Math, Numbers

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• I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Ideas, Glasses

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• What if the idea of Mr. Right is completely false? What if there is no Mr. Wrong? What if every relationship-no matter how brief-contains a priceless lesson allowing you to grow and evolve into your grandest self?

  Marie Forleo

  Ideas, Mr Right, Self

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• Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

  David D. Burns

  Fear, Perfection, Humans

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• Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

  Conrad Burns

  Real, Self Confidence, Unique

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• My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

  George Soros

  Predictions, Approach

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.301, John Wiley & Sons

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• You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

  George Foreman

  Helping Others, Best Effort, Giving

  George Foreman (2010). “Knockout Entrepreneur: My Ten-Count Strategy for Winning at Business”, p.41, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required

  Thucydides

  Revenge, Adversity, Men

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

  Paa Kwesi Nduom

  Drinking, Mean, Poverty

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• Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do battle with God trust Him more deeply than those whose complacent faith permits an abstract and motionless stance before Him. Those who trust God most are those whose faith permits them to risk wrestling with Him over the deepest questions of life. Good hearts are captured in a divine wrestling match; fearful, doubting hearts stay clear of the mat.

  Dan B. Allender

  Good Life, Hate, Heart

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