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• Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

  Gary Blair

  Opportunity, Risk, Stakes

  "Finding Your J Spot: Joy in Midlife and Beyond". Book by Peter Brill and David Debin, 2006.

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• You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

  Humphrey Carpenter

  Stars, Moving, Ideas

  Humphrey Carpenter (1977). “Tolkien: A Biography”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect the course and sometimes the outcome of the game.

  James Paul Gee

  Games, Play, Choices

  "10 Truths About Books and What They Have to Do With Video Games" by James Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2011.

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• When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

  Charlie Brooker

  Sarcastic, Thinking, People

  "Charlie Brooker answers your questions: 'I get angry to amuse myself'". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Opportunity, Life And Death, Passing Away

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.273, Canongate Books

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• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

  Edith Schaeffer

  Art, Book, Writing

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.

  Danzy Senna

  Home, Thinking, Want

  Danzy Senna (2013). “From Caucasia, with Love”, p.315, A&C Black

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• So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

  Ellen Bass

  People, Inspire, Kind

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• Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Forever, Gestures, Lasts

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.76, Penguin

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• Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding
  something personal.

  Wim Crouwel

  Design, Problem, Problem Solving

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• Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Zoos, Animal, Should Have

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• The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Reading, Passion

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• Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Maps, Process, Sharon

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• If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

  Julian Fellowes

  Secret, Looks, Maids

  "Gosford Park". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two year military service, I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me. I want people to have a good impression of Israel. I don't feel like I'm an ambassador for my country, but I do talk about Israel a lot - I enjoy telling people about where I come from and my religion.

  Gal Gadot

  Country, Strong, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high.

  Michael Gartner

  Demand, Economy, Good Coaches

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• Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them.

  Constance Hale

  Vocabulary, Appreciate, Giving

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• I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it . Because there is, of course, always the desire, the hope, that they are not two separate worlds, sound and silence, but that they become each other, that only our hearing fails.

  Jorie Graham

  Writing, Thinking, Other Worlds

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• Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If it had any, I missed it. What we had was a government-prescribed course of amphetamines (to keep it up), antibiotics (to prevent infection) and antidepressants (to make it feel better). It endured regular steroid injections from both monetary and fiscal authorities. And it still has no real muscle.

  Caroline Baum

  Real, Feel Better, Government

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• If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

  William Hurrell Mallock

  Men, Wish, Opinion

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• My faith, I mean, that's such a personal aspect that a lot of times, of course it's going to come out through the song. But at the same time, I'm not a religious salesman. I feel like God doesn't really need a salesman, and what these songs are are simply my interactions with this life and learning. I guess the bottom line is the songs are really honest, you know what I mean. That faith is going to come through. If the listener is looking for it, that's definitely a part of it.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Religious, Mean

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• Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing.

  Ron Paul

  Political, Peaceful, Necessary Change

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• Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Liberty, Destruction, Despotism

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life.

  Ralph Marston

  Commitment, Quality, Determine

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• If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lying, Might, Outcomes

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