Courses Quotes - Page 15

Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.

Joey Comeau

Real, Cutting, Chaos

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Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.

Bruce Friedrich

Moving, Heart, Mean

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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Barbara Deming

Determination, Anger, Thinking

Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.

Siouxsie Sioux

Anger, Sadness, Thinking

"Her dark materials". Interview With Michael Bracewell, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.

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The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.

Oliver North

Dad, War, Years

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Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

Marsha Blackburn

War, President, Middle East

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When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

Alan Watts

Life, Death, Summer

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If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

Robert A. Heinlein

Running, Water, Stupidity

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Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET.

Brad Alan Lewis

Success, Sports, Pain

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I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Accomplishment, Degrees, Clarity

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Finding oil is a multidisciplinary science. You need a lot of people - statisticians, engineers, and geologists, of course. And what I have learned in the past 30 years is that I read people better than I read books.

Eike Batista

Book, Past, Years

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Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me

Jerry Lawler

Real, Mean, Talking

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Of course, it’s true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you’re feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don’t change. They existed, and that’s all there is to it.

Banana Yoshimoto

Sunset, Feeling Down, Feelings

Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.181, Melville House

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Will you tell Him frankly, that you cannot carry your load, and that you need help? Will you suffer Him to help you in His own way, and be glad and thankful if He will only take you under His care, and direct the whole course of your life for you?

Washington Gladden

Suffering, Needs, Care

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 594. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Jack Steinberger

Army, Special, Chicago

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Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

John Lukacs

Forever, Matter, Brooms

John Lukacs (1990). “Confessions of an original sinner”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

Jonas Salk

Errors, Evolution, Speak

"Man Evolving". Interview with Richard D. Heffner on The Open Mind, May 11, 1985.

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The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed.

Edward Bernays

Mean, People, Three

Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.3, University of Oklahoma Press

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Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

David Quammen

Book, Comforting, Intellectual

David Quammen (2012). “The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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I build confidence when I practice a variety of shots - hitting it high or low, working the ball. A lot of golfers go to the range and just hit full shots. That doesn't build on-course confidence, because you won't always hit full shots out there. My confidence is built on knowing I can effectively work the ball in any circumstance.

JoAnne Carner

Sports, Confidence, Knowing

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Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

John Bruton

Country, Moving, Rights

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Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut—spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales, distributions.

Joel Greenblatt

Running, Opportunity, Rights

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People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like a dude,' it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, 'Oh, she's as good as us.' Of course, that's a stupid statement. It's totally stereotypical to say, 'We have an advantage on this, and if anyone else can do it well, it's only because they're like us.' I think more men are starting to learn that this attitude is totally hollow and based in imagination. As more women are involved in music, this kind of thing gets said less and less.

Esperanza Spalding

Attitude, Stupid, Men

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Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

Confucius

Perfect, Path, Facts

Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.2, Delphi Classics

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Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.

Confucius

Different, Plans, Lays

James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.230

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