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• History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

  Eric Alterman

  Military, War, Example

  Eric Alterman (1999). “Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy”, p.259, Cornell University Press

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• To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Party, Opposites, Heresy

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• Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Unhappy, Stories

  "Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance". occupywriters.com.

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• [The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the propositions, the stern elimination of everything not immediately relevant to the purpose, the finish of the whole, are so impressive in their perfection as to create a feeling akin to awe in the mind of the reader.

  Thomas Little Heath

  Math, Perfection, Feelings

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• The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Thinking, People, Ability

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• Love is the all-or-nothing of the kingdom of God. Above all we are to love (Col. 3:14; 1 Peter 4:8). Everything we do is to be done in love and, thus, communicate love (1 Cor. 16:14). We are to imitate God by living in Christlike love (Eph. 5:1–2), and if we do this, we fulfill the whole law (Matt. 22:37–40; Rom. 13:8–10). If we lack this, everything else we do is devoid of kingdom value, however impressive it might otherwise be (1 Cor. 13:1–3).

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Love Is, Law, Done

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• The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?

  Will Shortz

  Real, Book, Historical

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• One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

  Patrick Collison

  Technology, Clouds, Important

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• There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.

  Jan Struther

  Stars, Lakes, Air

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• There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.

  Percival Lowell

  Thoughtful, Sight, Sky

  Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”

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• The variety within Mann's fiction is impressive and fascinating. But Joyce is even more various and many-sided. He begins his career with a wonderful sequence of bleak studies about the ways in which human lives can go awry - in my view, Dubliners is underrated.

  Philip Kitcher

  Views, Careers, Fiction

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Winter, Artist

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• A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that within the framework of the applicability of its basic concepts, it will never be overthrown.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Differences, Simplicity

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.353, Running Press

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• Put in the superlatives yourselves, I'm running out. It's already been a while now that he has been outstanding. He's more than decisive in every way. That he's capable of doing everything that he does at his age is something impressive, that doesn't make any sense.

  Pep Guardiola

  Running, Age, Doe

  "Lionel Messi Is the Best Player Ever, Claims Barcelona President". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2010.

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• An important film that must be seen. Saving Lincoln is moving, ingenious, original and impressive.

  Michael Medved

  Moving, Important, Saving

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• To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours.

  Peter Drucker

  Numbers, Risk, Knowledge Workers

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2001). “The Essential Drucker: Selections from the Management Works of Peter F. Drucker”, Routledge

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• There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

  James Henry Breasted

  Art, Civilization, Age

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• Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mind, Metaphysics, Humans

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• The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Growth, Important, Engagement

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• Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Heart, Mean

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• Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.

  Michael Bolton

  Inspiring, Kings, Moving

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• I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.

  Louise Rennison

  Space, Long, Laughing

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• My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.

  Gail Sheehy

  Feel Better, Our World, Self

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• The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

  Paul Krugman

  Groups, Economics, Mathematics

  "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?". www.nytimes.com. September 2, 2009.

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• I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Simple, Often Is

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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