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• It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

  Glenn Tipton

  Musical, Musician, Band

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• A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.

  Paulo Freire

  Perseverance, Reading, Learning

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• Manage through the uncertainties. Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices. Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you: celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own. Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Loyalty, Opportunity, Practice

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• God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]

  John H Aughey

  Mean, Men, Deep Water

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• If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside the immortality that had been granted. For such immortality is eternally preserved by participation in life, since all life is genuine and preserved by appropriate food. The food of that blessed life is 'the bread that came down from heaven and gives life to the world' (Jn. 6:33), just as the inerrant Word Himself declares about Himself in the Gospels.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Blessed, Giving

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• I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

  Joe Mantello

  Thinking, Directors, Prejudice

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• The powers-that-be understand that to create the appropriate atmosphere for war, it’s necessary to create within the general populace a hatred, fear or mistrust of others regardless of whether those others belong to a certain group of people or to a religion or a nation.

  James Morcan

  War, People, Hatred

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• Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

  Robert Adams

  Art, Trying, Doe

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.

  Robert Adams

  Believe, Vocabulary, Sight

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• May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Compassion, Asking

  "Jack Kornfield on Gratitude and Mindfulness". greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 19, 2014.

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• The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

  Reed Hastings

  People, Trying, Outcomes

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• I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Teaching

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• Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.

  Daniel Handler

  Sex, People, Risk

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• Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations.

  Peter Farb

  Community, Way, Speech

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.240, Vintage

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• I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

  Kirsty Coventry

  Believe, Would Be, Don't Believe

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• Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.

  Stephen Daldry

  Country, Gun, Past

  "Exclusive: Director Stephen Daldry Interview THE READER". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 11, 2008.

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• What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?

  Laszlo Bock

  Teamwork, Team Building, Care

  "How to Get a Job at Google". mobile.nytimes.com. February 22, 2014.

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• A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate.

  Meredith L. Young-Sowers

  Spiritual, Teacher, And Love

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• Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

  Laozi

  Life, Thinking, Light

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Mean, Oxford, Use

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• We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.

  Bill McKibben

  Art, Taken, Sadness

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• We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Passion, Comedian

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.91

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• Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Energy, Eloquence, Organs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hatred, Sentiments, Occasions

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.106, University of Georgia Press

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