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• The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone of your New Year resolutions, be it for your company, your family or yourself. It also is a perfect time to clarify your three circles, mirroring at a personal level the three questions... 1) What are you deeply passionate about? 2) What are you are genetically encoded for - what activities do you feel just "made to do"? 3) What makes economic sense - what can you make a living at?

  James C. Collins

  New Year, Business, Years

  "Best new year's resolution? A 'stop doing' list" by James C. Collins, www.jimcollins.com. December 30, 2003.

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• The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people.

  Jim Carrey

  Pain, Grateful, Writing

  View London Interview, www.viewlondon.co.uk.

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• Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.

  John Waters

  New York, Book, Character

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I used to prefer cash but I'm more and more drawn to cards because with certain cards you get the full lists which you can then pass on to your accountant so you don't have to do the whole receipt, receipt, receipt thing as it's all itemised.

  Lemar

  Cards, Cash, Used

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Editors, Assessment

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I don't like giving a gift just to cross the person off my list. They don't have to be extravagant or expensive things, they can be simple. Just helping my neighbor hang his lights was a great gift for me to give. He was an older gentleman who was having trouble putting up his lights, and it made me feel good to be able to help him.

  Peter Facinelli

  Simple, Light, Giving

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It had been about twenty years. I wanted to write it out before I watched it again. And I felt if those things stayed with me long enough, those are the things that I wanted to highlight.

  Len Wiseman

  Writing, Years, Long

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• The three-breasted woman was very much at the top of my list in [original 'Total recall']. Like I said, I was fourteen! I remember Arnold [Schwarzenegger] pulling that big tracker out of his nose and freaking out about that. I remember going through the immigration booth where their face splits open with that heavyset redheaded lady. So there were a lot of these little moments that I remember.

  Len Wiseman

  Immigration, Three, Noses

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• 1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

  Derwin L. Gray

  Leadership, Christian, Teaching

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• When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

  A.C. Grayling

  Believe, Reading, School

  "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of the things you are grateful for.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Grateful, Firsts

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• Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."

  Edward Young

  Gratitude, Heart, Blessing

  Edward Young, Charles Cowden CLARKE, George Gilfillan (1861). “Young's Night Thoughts. With life and critical dissertation, by the Rev. G. Gilfillan. The text edited by Charles Cowden Clarke”, p.254

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• Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Zucchini, Vegetables

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• An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting.

  Richard Lewontin

  Butterfly, Unique, Long

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• Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Twenties, Want, Purses

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• Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Mistake, Book, Names

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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• The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Want

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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little notes about them. But sometimes the story changes and I don't end up following that.

  Pamela Clare

  Trying, Stories, Littles

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• From a personal perspective, because I'm on a watchlist and went through years of trying to find out why, of having the government refuse to confirm or deny the very existence of such a list, it's so meaningful to have its existence brought into the open so that the public knows there is a watchlist, and so that the courts can now address the legality of it. I mean, the person who revealed this has done a huge public service and I'm personally thankful.

  Laura Poitras

  Meaningful, Government, Years

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Destiny's Child will always be No.1 on my list.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Children, Destiny

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• Teaching vocabulary lists is inefficient - the time is better spent reading alone.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Teaching, Reading, Vocabulary

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• Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Mean, Errors, Ideas

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• Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the housing crisis and even the severe recession. You look at the best places to live, according to Money's 2009 list, and 9 of the 10 are Whitopias.

  Richard Benjamin

  Cnn, Colorado, Louisville

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.

  Jerome Ringo

  Color, Issues, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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