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• I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.

  Theophilus London

  Needs, Laptops, Courses

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• One thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Identity, Helping, Students

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• We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Jobs, Blow, America

  Thurgood Marshall, J. Clay Smith, Jr. (2003). “Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings”, p.15, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

  Courtney Summers

  Ifs, I Can

  Courtney Summers (2013). “What Goes Around: Two Books In One: Cracked Up to Be & Some Girls Are”, p.37, Macmillan

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• I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Long, Three, Pieces

  "'This American Life,' en Español". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• How do you untell something? You can't. You can't put words back in your mouth. What you can do, is spread false gossip ... so people think that everything that's been said is untrue. Include that Stanley is having an affair. It's like the end of Spartacus. I have seen the movie half a dozen times, and I still don't know who the real Spartacus is. And, that is what makes that movie a classic whodunnit.

  Michael Scott

  Real, Thinking, Gossip

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• Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

  Patrick Wolff

  Long, Investing, Want

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• Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

  Andy Serkis

  Magnificent, You Can Do It

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• There are people who make a hobby of telling others what they can do and what they can't do. I've learnt to not listen to those people.

  Omar Samra

  People, Hobbies

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• Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought.

  George Friedman

  Jobs, Distance, Taken

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• Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

  Criss Jami

  Love Is, Feels, Persons

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

  Criss Jami

  Skills, Looks, Fool

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.111, Criss Jami

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• It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent. On the contrary, teachings can be either taken or dismissed; whereas voting is the only thing the average person can do to force everyone to live how they would prefer. A simple vote is among the largest yet most acceptable forms of bigotry, and that is because people play the card only when they feel that in doing so it conveniences themselves.

  Criss Jami

  Strong, Teaching, Taken

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, Criss Jami

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• Suddenly, as though in a dream, this apparition, this double apparition, approached me. The two most beautiful people in the world were floating toward me, smiling. It was as if they were angelic visitors. I thought to myself, 'If there is anything I can do to keep them as beautiful as they are, I will do it.'

  Gilbert Seldes

  Beautiful, Dream, Two

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• I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

  Jason Newsted

  Thinking, Say Anything, Want

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• I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.

  Valerie Thomas

  Mean, Rainy Day, Men

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• Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.

  John Bonifaz

  Fighting, Play, Political

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• Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.

  James Anthony Froude

  Angel, Thinking, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.37

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• I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.

  James Anthony Froude

  Children, Thinking, Long

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.78

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• When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!

  Edgar Guest

  Feet, Trying, May

  Edgar Albert Guest, “See It Through”

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• Millions of American families are dealing with teenage pregnancy... It is true that some Americans will judge Governor Palin and her family. There's nothing anyone can do about it.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Teenage, Pregnancy, Judging

  "Sarah Palin and the Chaos Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. September 3, 2008.

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• I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.

  Andy Rooney

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Laughing

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Running, Believe, Men

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”

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• I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Jobs, Fall, Kids

  "The Spellbinder: Gwyneth Paltrow" by Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. August 3, 2011.

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