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• There are times where you can't do it yourself and the system takes over, or it's appropriate to do things differently. But I think driving your son and your wife away from hospital was really important to me.

  Prince William

  Son, Thinking, Wife

  "Prince William speaks for first time about fatherhood" by Caroline Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2013.

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• A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.

  Hippocrates

  Perseverance, Art, Reflection

  Hippocrates (1941). “Selected works”

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• Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the slightest degree to its agency. In such cases we quite unconsciously blink out of sight the magic power of the latter principle, so wondrous and all-controlling in its influence at other times, and coolly appropriate to ourselves not merely the lion's share, but the whole glory of our position.

  William Matthews

  Dream, Agency, Sight

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• To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

  Chinua Achebe

  Real, Mean, Names

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “The Education of a British-Protected Child”, p.67, Penguin UK

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• Before the revolution I thought there are appropriate individuals who would do the job according to Islam, therefore I repeatedly said that clerics would go after their own job. Then I saw that most of them were inappropriate individuals and I found out that what I said was not true, so I came and clearly announced that I was wrong.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Jobs, Islam, Saws

  "Imam's Sahife", Volume 18 (p. 241), December 11, 1983.

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• I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".

  Elizabeth Heyert

  Fashion, Thinking, Expression

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.

  Ursula Burns

  Thinking, Together, Dynamics

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• It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Cancer, Long, Drug

  "Patrick Soon-Shiong, LA’s Richest Man, Ups The Ante On Cancer Research, City Life" by Ronald Grover, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

  Alan Turing

  Children, Brain, Mind

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• Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.

  Erving Goffman

  Principles, Way, Moral

  "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life". Book by Erving Goffman, p. 13, 1959.

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• Everything has its cycle. I think it's appropriate for us to be ending now. But the beauty of storytelling, and the beauty of film and television is that it continues on.

  Jennifer Beals

  Thinking, Film And Television, Storytelling

  The L Word Finale Special, March 08, 2009.

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• I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Axes, Space, People

  "Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 8, 1987.

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• I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Men, Class

  "The Road to Wigan Pier". Book by George Orwell (Diary 6-10 February), March 8, 1937.

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• The Church has been reproached with endeavouring to appropriate to itself all those professorships in our Universities which are connected with science: it is however certain that the larger portion of these ill-remunerated offices have been filled by clergymen.

  Charles Babbage

  Office, Church, Clergymen

  Charles Babbage (1851). “The Exposition of 1851, Or, Views of the Industry, the Science, and the Government, of England”, p.225

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• Women watched for the spectacular performances of the men, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the presence of an audience is a very important factor in shaping the men's behavior. In fact, it is probable that the men are more exhibitionistic because the women admire their performances. Conversely, there can be no doubt that the spectacular behavior is a stimulus which summons the audience together, promoting in the women the appropriate behavior.

  Gregory Bateson

  Men, Doubt, Important

  "Gregory Bateson: the legacy of a scientist". Book by David Lipset, 1982.

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• Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Daughter, Women

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• Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.

  Antonin Artaud

  Art, Magic, Shadow

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.12, Grove Press

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• For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Intellectual, Would Be, Today

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “The Individualized Society”, p.153, John Wiley & Sons

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• The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Thinking, Class, Two

  "The System of Ethics According to the Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre". Book by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1798.

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• This "knowing what to do"... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.

  Roger Scruton

  Hands, Knowing, Purpose

  Roger Scruton (2007). “Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged”, p.35, Encounter Books

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• Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Arrogance, Use, World

  Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Extinction: A Novel”, p.219, Vintage

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• Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

  Russ Feingold

  Patriotic, Government, Overreaching

  myDD.com, March 10, 2005.

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• I do think younger women have to figure out how to combine their own sense of style with what is appropriate and authoritative. Some young women think there's no reason why they can't wear flip flops in the office in the summer because their accomplishments should exempt them from a stodgy dress code.

  Robin Givhan

  Summer, Thinking, Accomplishment

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do with, you know, arms belonging to the state, not to -- not in private hands. The current circumstances come out of what I think is a very important and indeed appropriate action that the Iraqi government has taken.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Taken, Thinking, Government

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• The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.

  John Rawls

  Rights, Justice, Principles

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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