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• The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s more a matter of subtracting energy from the equation in order not to barf the thoughts up and start chewing them over again.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Order, Effort

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye”, p.43, New World Library

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• Gear is the least important part of the equation. Having a vision and being able to articulate an idea visually are much more important.

  Paul Nicklen

  Ideas, Vision, Important

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• As with Randall Terry and other anti-abortion leaders, women simply
  did not figure into [Roeder's] equations. If all the abortion
  providers were dead, the problem would be solved, and he'd never have
  to think about those who sought to end their pregnancies through
  illegal or dangerous means.

  Stephen Singular

  Pregnancy, Mean, Thinking

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• Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Community, World, Might

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.108, John Wiley & Sons

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• In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.

  Amit Ray

  Giving, Solve, Puzzles

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• My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead.

  Daniel Tammet

  Math, Emotional, Numbers

  Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Successful improvisation is mostly a matter of taking your thoughts out of the equation, because thinking can keep the magic from happening. You have to be open enough to let the magic happen, instead of trying to make it happen because magic is never made.

  Jimmy Herring

  Successful, Thinking, Magic

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• ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Math, Squares

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1386, Library of America

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• The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.

  N. T. Wright

  Bird, Historical, Enlightenment

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• I feel like in Australia, all the films I've done, we're all equal moving parts in this equation of making the film - an actor is another crew member, essentially.

  Emily Browning

  Moving, Australia, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are trying to impress a woman, leave any sort of show farting out of the equation.

  Demetri Martin

  Trying, Impress, Shows

  Twitter post from Oct 17, 2012

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• I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Qualms About, Ice, Care

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• In current society, your security is cash, and that has huge repercussions. But when you take that out of the equation, you have to have relationships with people and you have to have relationships with the environment to survive.

  Mark Boyle

  People, Cash, Environment

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Prophecy

  Catherynne M. Valente (2015). “The Boy Who Lost Fairyland”, p.131, Macmillan

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• What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Beach, Math, Skulls

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• Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

  Nate Berkus

  Nice, Mean, Found Objects

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• This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. It is always hard to realize that these numbers and equations we play with at our desks have something to do with the real world. Even worse, there often seems to be a general agreement that certain phenomena are just not fit subjects for respectable theoretical and experimental effort.

  Steven Weinberg

  Real, Mistake, Agreement

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• You can keep your own religion - Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Mormonism - you just need to add Jesus to the equation. Then you become complete. You become a Buddhist with Jesus, a Hindu with Jesus, a Muslim with Jesus and so on. You can throw out the term Christianity and still be a follower of Jesus. In fact, you can throw out the term Christian too. In some countries, you could be persecuted for calling yourself a Christian, and there is no need for that. Just ask Jesus into your heart, you don't have to identify yourself as a Christian.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Country, Jesus

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• Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Facts, Music Is

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

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• The most surprising fact that people do not know about breast cancer is that about 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer do not have a single relative with breast cancer. Much more than just family history and inherited genes factor into the breast cancer equation.

  Kristi Funk

  Cancer, People, Facts

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  Samantha Bond

  Teenager, People, Rooms

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• Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

  Ayn Rand

  Commitment, Feelings, Tools

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.34, Penguin

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• Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

  Carl Sagan

  Writing, Mathematical Equations, Long

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• People can get too heavy and it's just about being heavy, which means there isn't a whole lot of art in that; it's more mechanical. Just always keep in mind that melody is what makes something memorable and if you take that out of the equation then you may have something that's technically played very well, but you still can't lose sight of the song.

  Jason C. Miller

  Song, Art, Memorable

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dragons, Doe

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