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• History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

  Howard Nemerov

  Our World, Literature, Way

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• Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Believe, Unlimited Potential, Scientology

  L. Ron Hubbard (1987). “Self Analysis”, p.5, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

  Helen Thomas

  Medicine, Elderly, Sick

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• I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.

  Donella Meadows

  Spiritual, Moving, Mean

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• There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

  Shelley Berkley

  Cities, Giving, Desire

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• Thank God for the tsunami, and thank God that two thousand dead Swedes are fertilizing the ground over there [in Asia]. How many of these two thousand, do you suppose, were fags and dykes? This is how the Lord deals with His enemies. And the Lord has got some enemies. And Sweden heads the list. You filthy Swedes. You filthy Swedes!

  Fred Phelps

  Two, Enemy, Thank God

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

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• The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

  Norton Juster

  Looks, Way, Phantom Tollbooth

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Should, Thrown

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Wise, Mean, Player

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• We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

  William McDonough

  Creativity, Intelligent, Vision

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• You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.

  Bill Crawford

  Anxiety, Use, Anxious

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• The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Reality, Humanity, Dying

  Sherwin B. Nuland (1994). “How We Die”, Vintage

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• I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

  Michael Vick

  Responsibility, Action, Accepting

  "Vick Sentenced to 23 Months for Conspiracy". www.npr.org. December 10, 2007.

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• Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, People, Awful

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.122, Anchor

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• It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Loss, Energy

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.

  John M. Perkins

  Thinking, Church, Bigs

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• Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.

  David Price

  Strong, Party, Challenges

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• Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

  David Ives

  Writing, Theatre, Humans

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• Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.

  Nathanael West

  Men, Order, Insane

  Nathanael West (2012). “The Dream Life of Balso Snell”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

  Garet Garrett

  Moving, Recovery, Forever

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  Garet Garrett

  Fundamentals, Enmity, Enterprise

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.

  Albert J. Nock

  Believe, People, Weakness

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• Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

  Billy Sunday

  Home, Piano, Needs

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Brandon Wegher left camp to deal with some personal things. We hope he can return in the very near future

  Kirk Ferentz

  Return, Camps, Personal Things

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• It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptance at that time in my life, I would not be standing here today.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Acceptance, Keys, Sobriety

  "Finishing speech a great relief to Eck / Closer brings tears during emotional gathering" by John Shea, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2004.

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