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• When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Purpose, Life Is

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.218, Macmillan

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• Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm not, some part of you is in that character and it's hopefully believable. I always come back to the fact that my own instinct is better than something I build in my mind.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Character, Mind, Pieces

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

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• There should be a course in the first grade on love.

  Andy Warhol

  Firsts, Should, Grades

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

  Khalil

  Love Is, Thinking, Desire

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• I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Country, Teenager

  Peter De Vries (1967). “The vale of laughter”

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• If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, World, Sticks

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• When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

  Chalmers Johnson

  War, Action, Profitable

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• If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Disappear Completely, Practice

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Jobs, Views, Law

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• I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

  Count Basie

  Real, Play, Tunes

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• I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Believe, Belief, Always Believe

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.74, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 years’ time – would the story of Moses’ burning bush amaze a generation laden with unimaginable scientific and technological wonders? Here lies religion’s biggest quandary. While science is squeezing the life out of God, how is religion going to muster a counterattack from here?

  Trevor Treharne

  Jesus, Atheist, Lying

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• The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

  W. Clement Stone

  Choices, Want, Today

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• More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Lunch, Mba

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• One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

  Mark Skousen

  Writing, College, Thinking

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• You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences.

  Warren Buffett

  Simple, Swings, Order

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• When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Mind, Awakening

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• This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the midst of normal life. Instead, decisions about whom to love are more intense versions of the sorts of decisions we make throughout the course of our existence, from what kind of gelato to order to what career to pursue. Living is an inherently emotional business.

  David Brooks

  Love Is, Emotional, Order

  "Social Animal". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Stars, Storm, Navigate

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• At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.

  Tony Robbins

  Decisions You Make, Forever, Moments

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• The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.

  Jeff Cooper

  Action, Self Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.20, Paladin Press

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• It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.

  William Matthews

  Quality, Attention, Dull

  William Matthews (1989). “Curiosities”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Today, Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed when he learned that a firehouse isn't a house where you get to fire people.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Fire, Cities

  "This Week" with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. May 6, 2012.

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• Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader, Ships, Steers

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• President Obama's re-election campaign said that this year they'll knock on 150 percent more doors than they did in 2008. Well, of course they will. They have to. There's so many foreclosures it's tough to tell where people live.

  Jay Leno

  Doors, Years, People

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