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• A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.

  George W. S. Trow

  Pain, Flirting, Giving

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• Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

  Karl Marx

  Political, Revolution, Dictatorship

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1977). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

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• Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask for any other area outside the frontiers of the Arab homeland

  Saddam Hussein

  Past, Political, Shadow

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• There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

  Ted Koppel

  Fashion, Peace, Trends

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• Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

  Laozi

  Mother, Sex, Heart

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• They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Buddhist, Determination

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• Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Running, Dark

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• Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dark, Light, Hands

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• The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich."

  Linda McQuaig

  Cutting, Assessment, Media

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• Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

  Plato

  Success, Dream, Long

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• Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have to be "out of your mind", so to speak. So although I recognize the merits of hard work, I find that my work goes stale if I don't go off wandering around the world every few weeks. My friends think I'm a gipsy, but that's when I do "part 1" of my best work.

  Joao Magueijo

  Work, Thinking, Office

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• A 1977 poll of American astronomers, published in JSE, showed the following. Out of 2611 questionnaires 1356 were returned. In response to whether the UFO problem deserved further study the replies were: 23% certainly, 30% probably, 27% percent possibly, 17% probably not, 3% certainly not. Interestingly, there was a positive correlation between the amount of reading done on the subject and the opinion that further study was in order.

  Bernard Haisch

  Reading, Order, Done

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• I go to see the clothes [I designed] in the shops, and of course they're not perfect, and I see only the imperfections. But it doesn't mean it's a failure-you just think, I wish it could be better than this. Sometimes I cannot achieve what I really want to do in just one collection, so in the following collection I do it again. There are certain things I've been working on for three years.

  Junya Watanabe

  Mean, Thinking, Years

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• The notion of following your passion is worth indulging. Your passion is your source of power. To live really a full life, you need to follow where it leads...in defiance of all things conventional perhaps. And of course it has its price. You have to know that going in. But the price you pay, in my opinion, is not worth the time of day to think about. It is so important not to knee pad around the world. You should never bow down to anything but those you love and respect. Ever for anything.

  Doug Peacock

  Passion, Thinking, Important

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• If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

  Herodotus

  Drunk, Decision, House

  Herodotus (2007). “Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.

  Socrates

  Past, Thinking, Track

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• Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

  Max McKeown

  Thought Provoking, Provoking, Industry

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.76, Pearson UK

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• Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

  Plato

  Country, Men, Practice

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.162, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, War, Government

  "Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter VIII, "The Great Compromise," p. 90, 1975.

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• The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle Ages, that was the kind of marriage that was sanctified by the Church. And so the troubadour idea of real person-to-person Amor was very dangerous. . . . It is in direct contradiction to the way of the Church. The word AMOR spelt backwards is ROMA, the Roman Catholic Church, which was justifying marriages that were simply political and social in their character. And so came this movement validating individual choice, what I call following your bliss.

  Joseph Campbell

  Real, Character, Individual Choice

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• If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

  Marguerite Young

  Reality, Ideas, Leader

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• This is following through on the market correction and a lot of mixed emotions, ... We had players who were with us in '03 who helped us win a championship. It's a business, but we've had a lot of history with a lot of these guys. The recognition of what they've done is not going to be lost, but the reality of the situation is the reality of the situation.

  Larry Beinfest

  Winning, Player, Reality

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• All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mistake, Lying, Math

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• A man and his wife, each in a different small plane, were out enjoying a flight, when the husband committed a flight error. He was able to recover, but his wife who was following him, crashed and was killed. The husband was distraught, blaming himself for the accident. One day when pleading with the Lord for forgiveness, he heard a voice saying "Jesus died, even for dumb mistakes."

  Truman G. Madsen

  Jesus, Husband, Mistake

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• I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.

  Jahangir Khan

  Retirement, Support, Pakistan

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