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• Healing happens between the notes. I had to allow the space and not be afraid, and to know that things happen in space. You have to let the space settle. If you let go, you transcend and experience the stillness, and that is the healing. One ingredient of health is rest. Activity comes from inactivity. The basis of sound is silence. Stillness is basic to health.

  Paul Horn

  Letting Go, Healing, Space

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• If you don't fail on a regular basis, you are not trying hard enough.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Trying, Failing, Enough

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• Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

  Susan Faludi

  Self Esteem, Believe, Feminism

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• Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.

  Paul Kurtz

  Reality, Roots, Essentials

  Paul Kurtz “Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm”, Transaction Publishers

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• Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Complaining, Stubborn, Proposal

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• If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy things ourselves because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation [Russia]. Besides, those who remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Fate, Russia

  "Enter the Bunker". "The History Place: Defeat of Hitler", www.historyplace.com. 2010.

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• "The area in which the executive first encounters the challenge of strength is in staffing. The effective executive fills positions and promotes on the basis of what a man can do. He does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength."

  Peter Drucker

  Men, Decision, Challenges

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• We emphasize the transcendent worth of the human person. We insist that the human person must never be treated as an object; he must always be considered the subject. That is the basis for our teaching, the absolute standard.

  Pope John Paul II

  Teaching, Standards, Treated

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• Trust grows when babies and mothers establish that they can find each other again after the inevitable moments of losing touch. It is not the goodness of the mother or the relationship per se that is the basis for trust; it is the ability of mother and baby together to repair the breaks in their relationship that builds a safe house for love.

  Carol Gilligan

  Mother, Baby, House

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• Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Passion, Desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Idea”, p.311, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn’t engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.

  Ralph Abraham

  Military, Advice, Next

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble.

  Peter Schiff

  Trouble

  Peter D. Schiff, John Downes (2011). “Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse”, p.52, John Wiley & Sons

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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• On a day-to-day basis, you get tired of waiting to be accepted. In show business, someone else has to say that you're good or that you're worth going to see or worth taping a show. There's a lot of pain here. There's a lot of pain inside. I'm a sad, crying-on-the-inside kind of clown.

  Greg Giraldo

  Pain, Tired, Waiting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is "I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever." This is mostly the action film dudes, like, "Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!" Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is. And then the third type is a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Powerful, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Unfortunately, I don't train enough on an everyday basis to be a black belt, but if I put my mind to it I think I could definitely move very quickly in that world.

  Milla Jovovich

  Moving, Thinking, Black

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2009.

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• I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass jar!) and instantly incorporate it in a project. It makes me feel creative on an every day basis.

  Signe Baumane

  Glasses, Creative, Kitchen

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Organization, Community

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• The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Creative, Irreverence, Importance

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• The Americans have surrounded our country with military bases and threatened us with nuclear weapons, and now they will learn just what it feels like to have enemy missiles pointed at you; we'd be doing nothing more than giving them a little of their own medicine.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Country, Military, Medicine

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• I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding more and more countries who are acquiring technology - not only missile technology - and are developing chemical weapons and biological weapons capabilities to be used in theater and also on a long range basis. So I think that is perhaps the greatest threat that any of us will face in the coming years.

  William Cohen

  Country, Believe, Technology

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• The fundamental basis of education must always remain that one must act for oneself. That is clear. One must act for him or herself.

  Maria Montessori

  Fundamentals, Clear, Oneself

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• I work with the president almost on a daily basis. I was with him until 6:30 last night. I'll be with him Thursday morning. We talk every day.

  Dan Quayle

  Morning, Night, President

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• There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Dwelling, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

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• The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Fighting, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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