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• I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

  John Linder

  Country, Citizens, Proud

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• Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

  Kevin Kelly

  Business, Heart, Years

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• The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.

  Robert Hughes

  Choices, Leader, Library

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• Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

  Henry Miller

  Optimistic, Eye, Land

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.319, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with.

  Paul Kane

  Special People, Groups, World

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• The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Writing, Ideas, Tragedy

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• As the industry has matured, real estate has become a very accepted investment. Institutions have used core investments to get comfortable with real estate as an asset class, and now that they're comfortable they're moving up the risk spectrum.

  Richard Price

  Real, Moving, Class

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• The core belief that drives terrorism is the notion of a "holy place," along with the idea that some people belong there and other people don't. That's why the only solution to terrorism is for religious scholars to hold a global summit to agree on the definition of "holy place." Once they agree on a definition, it will be easier to mock it into submission.

  Scott Adams

  Religious, Ideas, People

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• As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.

  Scott Adams

  People, Way, Causes

  DNRC Newsletter #58, November 11, 2004.

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• It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense, that links inorganic nature with life, and the stars with the earth, and matter with mind, and animals with man. Human history is a continuation of biological evolution in a different form.

  Julian Huxley

  Stars, Educational, Men

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• The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

  Fred Wilson

  Technology, Internet, Platforms

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• I feel things more deeply... anything to do with kids. It just makes a big difference in my life... Having a child is like taking the deepest core vulnerable aspect of myself, reaching in and taking it outside of my body.

  Ben Affleck

  Children, Kids, Differences

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• At its core, health is simple: eat the right amount for your body, don't ingest chemicals or fake foods, and move more.

  Jillian Michaels

  Moving, Simple, Fake

  "Jillian Michaels Talks Fitness Fads and What Makes an Exercise Phenomenon". Interview with Lily Butler, studioatgizmodo.kinja.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up.

  Margo Jefferson

  Thinking, White, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.

  Rian Johnson

  Letting Go, Long, The End Of The Day

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count race that isn't really going anywhere.

  Marques Brownlee

  Race, Apples, Architecture

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 18, 2014.

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• Having a CORE main focus is the key to being able to stay determined. Most people only set small goals and when they accomplish them... it's hard to stay on track as they are not trying to achieve anything else.

  Scott Herman

  Keys, People, Track

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• For me, my core focus has always been to help others so what drives me to keep doing this is the fact that I can continue to learn to coach others such as yourself. You might not be a fitness trainer, or maybe you are, but you need to find that CORE reason that will keep you going forever.

  Scott Herman

  Helping Others, Focus, Forever

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• The fans get to see you, and you can do great by your record if you have a great performance or a great night there. That's all part of the business. But at their core, awards shows are not really a sincere thing. For a lot of years, the artists had to pay to play their own set.

  Jay-Z

  Artist, Night, Awards

  Interview With Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• But at the same time, the film industry just got torched. The risk tolerance for the types of movies we're talking about is lower, and the reason for that is that the captains of the industry were asleep at the switch when their core business was being disrupted. And they're never getting it back. In a way, it makes it all the more exciting when the good ones get through.

  Edward Norton

  Talking, Tolerance, Risk

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Believe, Trying, Goodness

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My advice to anyone who wants to join in on farming is diversify. Nature is diversified, and I know you'll always have a core thing that you'll really like, but hang stuff around the edges of it. It will make your place more interesting for people to come to, and it's a lot easier to sell something else to an existing customer.

  Joel Salatin

  People, Interesting, Advice

  Interview with Malcolm Jolley, www.goodfoodrevolution.com.

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• If you feel like someone just knows what this is about to their core, they're going to have that special confidence in it.You stop looking at the seams and they start inhabiting the same space and start interacting with each .

  Edward Norton

  Space, Special, Feels

  "Interview: 'Leaves of Grass' Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson". filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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• I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.

  Alan Lightman

  Ideas, Numbers, Mind

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.'

  David McCullough

  Past, Wind, Two

  Source: www.neh.gov

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