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• A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

  Jean-Louis Barrault

  Patience, Treasure, Layers

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• Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

  James Bryant Conant

  Agreement, Individual Differences, Democracy

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• Death happens to the body with which it is associated, with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core, that the body is real, that verily is the death.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Body, Delusion

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• An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Looks, Balloons, Impressive

  "Debate rages: Is Mexico tough enough on drug trade?", www.cnn.com. March 27, 1998.

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• One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

  Howard Hughes

  Small Numbers, Anxiety, Development

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• Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.

  Archibald Alexander

  Stupid, Unyielding, Sin

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Heart, Writing, Issues

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• Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.

  Susan Cain

  Men, World, Extroverts

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.

  Linda Lingle

  Integrity, Believe, Hard Work

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• I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings

  Kofi Annan

  Cutting, July, Humanity

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• It's just that [the Hawks have made] a lot of changes. A lot of their great players have moved on. They have a lot of new faces and a lot of young guys who are going to be a part of this team for a long time. It'll take time. They've got a nice little core to start with.

  Mike Modano

  Nice, Team, Player

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• Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.

  Margaret Beckett

  Climate, Pace, Achieve

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• Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them.

  Eugenie Scott

  Students, Evolution, Biology

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• There's always going to be the cooler-clubbers who are going to harvest a lot of fish, but I think the hard-core bass fishermen release just about everything they catch these days. Years ago, I think people were willing to release smaller fish, but now I think they're willing to release them all, and that's the important part.

  Philip K. Chapman

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Art, Ego, Trying

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• The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.

  Egon Friedell

  Artist, Light, Views

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.34, Transaction Publishers

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• The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.

  Max Planck

  Science, Light, Velocity

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Vegetables, Civilization

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life.

  El-P

  Ambition, Artist, Average

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2007.

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• Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it.

  Lauren Mackler

  Self, Not Good Enough, Childhood

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• Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purpose—to be your guide around the web. You may not know how much you motivate us every day by using our products and sharing your ideas, but you do. Thank you.

  David Filo

  Ideas, Years, May

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• Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Sweet, Believe, Sound

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• If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teacher, Religion, Trying

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.56, Cambridge University Press

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• Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to fulfill its mission; it cannot function in a void. Light can go straight, penetrate and turn back, be reflected and deflected, gathered and spread, bent as by a soap bubble, made to sparkle and be blocked. Where it is no more is blackness, and where it begins is the core of its brightness. The journey of rays from that central core to the outposts of blackness is the adventure and drama of light.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Drama, Adventure, Journey

  Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

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• Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes us happy, cuts to the core of things. It takes him only twelve words to get to the heart of the matter: Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.

  Russ Roberts

  Heart, Cutting, Men

  Russ Roberts (2014). “How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness”, p.23, Penguin

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