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• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Vanity, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.101, Penguin

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• I think you want to do as much as you can for your fans. I take as many opportunities as I can when it comes to media and interviews and autograph sessions and things of that nature - as long as it's not interfering with the schedule and how much inexperience you can get on the track. When it starts to cut into that, it's kind of defeating the purpose. So that's where I draw the line.

  John Wes Townley

  Cutting, Opportunity, Thinking

  Interview with Jeff Gluck, www.usatoday.com. July 30, 2013.

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• Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Children, Feelings, Logic

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• Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

  Horace

  Cases, Extremes, Assistance

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• The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Enlightenment

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• Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Enlightenment

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• Your ego interferes, your sense of self. When you let go of the mind, the Frisbee will take its own path.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Health, Buddhism

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• One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

  Nassau William Senior

  Errors, Government, Would Be

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• ... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Freedom, Knowledge

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Science, Love Is

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• There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2068, Delphi Classics

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• Don't allow missed opportunities of the past interfere with the opportunities that are right before you.

  Ryan Robbins

  Past, Opportunity, Missed Opportunity

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• In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

  Nikola Tesla

  Past, Men, Law

  "A Machine to End War" by Nikola Tesla, 1937.

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• The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to
  an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

  Abraham Maslow

  Zero, Men, Justice

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Deborah Collins Stephens, Gary Heil (1998). “Maslow on management”, Wiley

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• I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.

  Louis Agassiz

  Ocean, Men, Evil

  Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”

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• The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing. It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.

  Toni Morrison

  Zero, Taken, Writing

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• Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Nature, Sky, Umbrella

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• They get you when you're young. When you are a kid, you are conditioned. You are taught language, customs, and right and wrong. You are filled with fears. This conditioning interferes with your psychic perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Kids, Buddhism

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• Perish discretion, when it interferes With duty!

  Hannah More

  Duty, Discretion

  "Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana".

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• Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

  Gene Brown

  Long, Advice, Grace

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• That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Men, Feminism, Comfort

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.32, University of Toronto Press

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• L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.

  Wanda Sykes

  Hate, Drinking, Causes

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• The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Sports, Mistake, Two

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• If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man desired thatwhich could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Play, Justice

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.159, Library of Alexandria

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• Love with eyes knows when to say no, when to say yes. Love neither interferes in anybody`s life nor allows anybody else to interfere into one`s own life. Love gives individuality to others, but does not lose its own individuality.

  Rajneesh

  Love Life, Eye, Giving

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