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• When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.

  Olivia Wilde

  Wine, Eye, Dark

  "Olivia Wilde: Jason Sudekis Loves My Hair When It's". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. February 7, 2013.

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• It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

  Olivia Wilde

  School, Succeed, Youth

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• The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job.

  Michael Symon

  Jobs, Cutting, Iron

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• It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Objectivity, Color

  Foreword to booklet on interracial relations prepared by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The New York Times, June 22, 1964.

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• I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, World, Lawyer

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.

  Russell Simmons

  Animal, Thinking, Trying

  "Russell Simmons Interview With ORIGIN Magazine: How To Make Positive Changes (PHOTOS)". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2013.

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• The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.

  Julian Assange

  People, Leaks, Protective

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• There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

  Katherine Paterson

  Kids, Littles, Little Kid

  Katherine Paterson (2011). “Read for Your Life #18”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

  Joyce Maynard

  Daughter, Mother, Encouragement

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• Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

  Paul Brunton

  Character, Meditation, Serenity

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Advanced contemplation: The peace within you”, Larson Pubn

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• What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Strong, Lying

  Martin Luther, cited by his secretary, in a letter in Max Lenz, ed., "Briefwechsel Landgraf Philips des Grossmuthigen von Hessen mit Bucer", vol. 1; in "Lying: Moral Choice In Public and Private Life‎" by Sissela Bok, New York: Pantheon Books, (p. 47), 1978.

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• The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Liberty, Movement

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• Your culture is your brand.

  Tony Hsieh

  Design, Marketing, Culture

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

  Chris Brogan

  Marketing, Needs, Digital

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• No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another; and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. Nay more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Ideas, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1111, Manonmani Publishers

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• The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Cat, Pet, Moments

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• Positive things happen to positive people.

  Sarah Beeny

  Motivational, Optimistic, People

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• I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, People, Diversity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.55, A&C Black

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• I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful; contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Doctors, Blood

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• A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

  George Washington Carver

  Caring, Science, Self

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• You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this, we're going to put people who are sick and dying with cancer and are being helped with marijuana if they have multiple sclerosis - the federal government is going in there and overriding state laws and putting people like that in prison.

  Ron Paul

  Cancer, Marijuana, Government

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• That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

  John Green

  Real, Book, What Matters

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• She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

  Horace

  Philosophy, Educational, Words Of Wisdom

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• As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend upon a separate agency to ignite them to action, and both bring helpful or harmful results according to the wisdom or ignorance with which they are directed.

  Roger McDonald

  Ignorance, Agency, Mind

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• We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Motivational, Change, Mistake

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