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• Do something youre not ready to do. In the worst case, youll learn your limitations.

  Marissa Mayer

  Worst, Ready, Limitation

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• In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

  Donella Meadows

  Permit, Release, Court

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• Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces.

  Julius Evola

  Becoming, Spirit, Force

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• When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket,
  he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Horse, Native American, Tents

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• If you go to Australia, the Australian Open is on all day long on network TV. There's no way CBS, NBC and ABC would do that. They only show the finals. That's always been the case. They don't want to give the time to the biggest tournament we have in the United States. Any other country, it's everywhere -- front page of the main paper, front page of the sports section. We haven't had that here.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Sports, Country, Australia

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• When I write, it is always the melody that comes first, and it just happens to be the case that the most beautiful tunes are sad, and the lyrics follow the mood of the melody.

  Francoise Hardy

  Beautiful, Writing, Firsts

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• Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

  Indro Montanelli

  Temptation, Masters, Servant

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• I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

  Craig Raine

  Clean Underwear, Important, Ulysses

  "Genius or fallen idol?". Interviews with Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2004.

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• We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognizance of all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had. The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea.

  Francis Galton

  Mean, Science, Men

  Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1883)

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• The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

  Oliver Lodge

  Quality, Different, States

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

  Konrad Lorenz

  Play, Decision, Humanity

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the "right" one, is often determined by the structure of the system, the situation. There are requirements, structurally determined; there are possible in pure cases unambiguous decisions as to which completion does justice to the situation, which does not, which violates the requirements and the situation.

  Max Wertheimer

  Justice, Decision, Requirements

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• The great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be seen. With the eye of contemplation, the great Within radiantly unfolds. And in all cases, the eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you: the eye of contemplation.

  Ken Wilber

  Eye, Secret, World

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.159, Shambhala Publications

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• Max Weber was right in subscribing to the view that one need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar. But there is a temptation for us theoretical sociologists to act sometimes as though it is not necessary even to study Caesar in order to understand him. Yet we know that the interplay of theory and research makes both for understanding of the specific case and expansion of the general rule.

  Robert K. Merton

  Views, Order, Temptation

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• Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice

  Pat Roberts

  Justice, Dollars, Rewards

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• The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

  Benjamin Rush

  War, Revolution, American Revolution

  Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”

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• If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

  Hollis Frampton

  Fire, Nerves, Neurons

  Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.243, MIT Press

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• In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Believe, Absence, Conspiracy

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• The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more

  G. H. Hardy

  Add, Life Is

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

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• When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

  Howard Tayler

  Ideas, Messengers, Be Prepared

  "Schlock Mercenary". Webcomic by Howard Tayler, 2003-2006.

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• Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

  Louis Leakey

  Religious, Men, Magic

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• When media make war against each other, it is a case of world-views in collision.

  Neil Postman

  War, Views, Media

  "Technopoly: the Surrender of Culture to Technology". Book by Neil Postman, 1992.

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• The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Satisfied, Conqueror

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• I believe careers should be judged independently unless there's a clear conflict of interest in a specific case.

  John Fund

  Believe, Careers, Conflict

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• With the exceptional talent that is Guy Sigsworth as producer and collaborator, we have recorded a collection of original songs that sees me moving away from a generic line up and back into the world of a programmer. Born of reconstructed improvisation I like to think of it as Prog-Pop, but I also like to think of big dogs as small horses. So don’t hang on to that thought long. Unless, of course, you think it astute of me in which case I am right

  Alison Moyet

  Dog, Song, Horse

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