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• Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like.

  Peter Abelard

  Mean, Self, Games

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• Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.

  Tom Peters

  Change, People, Innovation

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• In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.

  Mahbub ul Haq

  Children, Mean, Disease

  Mahbub ul Haq, Institute of Social Sciences (New Delhi, India) (2001). “Human development in South Asia: concepts, concerns, agenda for action”

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• My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.

  Paul Nurse

  Marijuana, Cells, Effort

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• Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.

  Alexander Kotov

  Learning, Player, Mind

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• In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here.

  John P. Kotter

  Change, Finals, Way

  John P. Kotter (2013). “Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author”, p.18, Harvard Business Press

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• The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.

  Paul Krassner

  Humor, Sarcasm, Views

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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• What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Political, Tools, May

  "Real-World Change Can Come From Within" by Parker J. Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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• In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.

  Brian Tracy

  Finals, Results, Paid

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• One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

  Melanie Klein

  Children, Interesting, Adults

  Melanie Klein, Juliet Mitchell (1987). “Selected Melanie Klein”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Data, Ideas, Produce

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Children, Writing, Learning

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• The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Genius, Ingredients

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• There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Our World, Practice, Secret

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.335, Random House

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• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Decision, Investing, Educating Yourself

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• When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market.

  Richard Branson

  Decision, Sophisticated, Guides

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• I was in analysis and I told my analyst I wanted to be the best sculptor in the world and he said, 'Richard, calm down.'

  Richard Serra

  World, Calm, Being The Best

  Interview with Charlie Rose, November 14, 2001.

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• In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

  Will Durant

  Civilization, Lasts, Food Supply

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• "What is it with people these days?" he hisses... "In my day, something just was. None of this analysis a hundred times over. None of these college courses with people graduating with degrees in Whys and Hows and Becauses. Sometimes, love, you just need to forget all of those words and enroll in a little lesson called 'Thank You.'"

  Cecelia Ahern

  Gratitude, Love You, College

  "Thanks for the Memories". Book by Cecelia Ahern, 2008.

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• In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.

  Minor White

  Order, Together, Synthesis

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• Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

  Eric Schmidt

  Monkeys, Type, Produce

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• Network Spinal Analysis inspires us to trust the healing power within.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Inspire

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• Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.

  B. J. Palmer

  Miracle, Definitions, Manifestation

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• Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

  Linda Chavez

  Success, Art, Creating

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• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  Samuel Alexander

  Simple, Issues, Movement

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