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• We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge. The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.

  C. West Churchman

  Team, Practice, Trying

  "Management Systems" by Peter P. Schoderbek, (p. 199), 1971.

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• In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Criticism, Easy, Unfair

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XX, "Where It Went," p. 285, 1975.

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• What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Use, States, Policy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.251, Princeton University Press

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• All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.

  Indira Gandhi

  Pursuit Of Happiness, People, Liberty

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• Without commenting on the legal aspects, which I'm not capable of doing, those are lifestreams and there are other companies that have done similar things. That makes me angry personally, not because of the money, but because of the deliberate failure to acknowledge work that we would have made freely available as academics.

  David Gelernter

  Done, Aspect, Made

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

  Roseanne Barr

  Ears, Truth Is

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• How to get a seat at the table: 1. Be excellent. 2. Say a prayer. 3. Be available 4. Be you

  Megan Alexander

  Prayer, Tables, Excellent

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• There is much more of God available than we have ever known or imagined, but we have become so satisfied with where we are and what we have that we don’t press in for God’s best.

  Tommy Tenney

  Satisfied, Known, Presses

  Tommy Tenney (2005). “God Chasers”, p.22, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.

  Peter Drucker

  Cities, Organization, Community

  "Civilizing the City". Leader to Leader, No. 7, 1998.

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• Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Our World, Perfection

  "The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Only His Wings Remained", p. 54, 1985.

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• The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and insung no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Leaving, Passing Away

  "The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays". Book by Andrew Carnegie, 1900.

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• I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

  Josephine Hart

  Reality, Thinking, Accepting

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.

  Simone Weil

  People, Personality, Architecture

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.13, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.

  Roger Ebert

  Cancer, Adventure, Dvds

  Roger Ebert (2010). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011”, p.161, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Prayer, People, Miracle

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• I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are not easily available. You have to earn entrance into them. You didn't learn things for too little. You had to pay a price. And I felt that LSD was just blasting superhighways into the mysteries. And what I really didn't like about LSD is that people who were taking it were seeming to become less and less as they took it. They got emptier and more vapid.

  Norman Mailer

  Strong, People, Feelings

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• War is the most readily available form of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Chaos, Form

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.188, Penguin

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• Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" Our souls do not spell out their troubles.

  Alain de Botton

  Heart, Medicine, Doctors

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• I would then say that there are two kinds of feeling. The first is to feel in the sense of concentrating your emotions on something immediately available for your understanding: you make your understanding out of the emotions you have about it. The second is to feel in the sense of being affected without trying to understand: something is felt, you do not know what, and it is more important to feel it than to try to understand it, since once you try to understand it you no longer feel it.

  Laura Riding

  Two, Understanding, Feelings

  "The Idea of God". "Essays from 'Epilogue' 1935-1937". Book by Laura Riding, Robert Graves, and Mark Jacobs, 2001.

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• The issue for the major companies is how, is how when and where to make their content online. So you look at these major cable companies, whether it's Disney or Time Warner, News Corp., ESPN, USA, they're being very very careful, about making their content available over the internet, and they're trying to figure it out.

  Harry E. Sloan

  Usa, Issues, Trying

  "Harry Sloan & Jeff Sagansky: The Future Is Content — and It’s Outside the U.S". Interview with Sharon Waxman, www.thewrap.com. September 21, 2011.

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• The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.

  Sara Genn

  Art, Doors, House

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• Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world.

  Martin Parr

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

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• The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, Enjoy

  "Lena Dunham talks Girls with Most Powerful Women". Interview with Soledad O’brien, fortune.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.

  Stanley Kauffmann

  Mean, Way, Fiction

  Stanley Kauffmann (2001). “Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment”, Performing Arts Journal Books

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• In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.

  Allan Bloom

  Greatness, America, Achievement

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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