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• Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Thinking, Imagination

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• Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community.

  Achim Steiner

  Animal, Ecosystems, Giving

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• As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.

  Olivia Goldsmith

  Writing, Tasks, Wheat

  Olivia Goldsmith (2014). “The Bestseller”, p.146, Diversion Books

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• I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.

  Anthony Burgess

  Writing, Names, Firsts

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.51, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Arsenal's never-improving injury list increasingly attracts curiosity rather than sympathy.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Curiosity

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• Everton have a healthy list of injuries.

  Michael Owen

  Football, Healthy, Injury

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• If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Stars, Power

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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• The gang that trashed the town was now back in town to trash it even more and you'll never guess.. they decided that the only way to save an economy brought to its knees by their collective actions and the banking system they represent was to, well, no, surely not.. hand trillions of taxpayer-borrowed dollars to the Rothschild-controlled banks and insurance companies like CitiGroup, J. P. Morgan, AIG and a long list of others.

  David Icke

  Hands, Long, Way

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• Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'

  Gordon Ramsay

  Success, Wine, Choices

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• No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control and energy production. The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.

  William Happer

  Government, Atmosphere, Energy

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• ...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me in, my grandparents told her (my mother); there was a long waiting list, and I was considered only because of the intervention of Gramps' boss, who was an alumnus (my first experience with affirmative action, it seems, had little to do with race).

  Barack Obama

  Mother, School, Islands

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• There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Party, Years, Long

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• We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Integrity, Rights, Voting

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• What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head of that list, with its "calumny" against life, its faith that just because nothing in life is eternal therefore life itself contains no value, nothing that makes it worth living, investing our souls in, committing our consciences to?

  Kenny Smith

  Life, Philosophy, Soul

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• The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Ideas, Media, Ridiculous

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• Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

  Robert Frost

  Flower, Winter, Lovers

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.33, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Important, Language, Computer

  "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

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• Asked to make a list of the men who have most dominated the thinking of the modern world, many educated people would name Freud, Einstein, Marx and Darwin. Of these four, only Darwin was not Jewish. In a world where Jews are only a tiny percentage of the population, what is the secret of the disproportionate importance the Jews have had in the history of Western culture?

  Ernest Van den Haag

  Men, Thinking, Names

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• Look at the list of liberals who are active in politics, if not running. Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, Warren Beatty, Springsteen, Spielberg... And then you look at the conservatives, it's like Chuck Norris, Bo Derek and the Gatlin Brothers. I don't know if being liberal makes you more right, but it does seem like it makes you more talented.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Art, Brother

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• Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list.

  Paul Zollo

  Song, Memorable, Writing

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• Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Writing, Trying, Letters

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• You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day - not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal - to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Dream, Writing

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• I always say that you could publish trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline. Almost anybody can make up a list of rules that are 80 percent as good as what we taught people. What they couldn’t do is give them the confidence to stick to those rules even when things are going bad.

  Richard Dennis

  Keys, Giving, Discipline

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• Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.

  Conan O'Brien

  Eye, Hair, Blue

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• The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Personality, Needs, Disorder

  Radio Times, August 5-11, 2006.

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