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• As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those things is trying to be a bit better than we normally manage to be.

  Alain de Botton

  Atheist, Thinking, Trying

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• Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.

  Jim Hightower

  Fall, Government, People

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• When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or philosophically, "Nothing is sure except death and taxes," or "God willing and the creek don't rise," reminding each other that, notwithstanding the level of planning, we are continually dealing with being surprised. We get startled. We recover. We are disappointed. We adjust. Mostly-with Wisdom intact-we manage.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Wise, Wisdom, Levels

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.69, Ballantine Books

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• Manage by responsibility.It is a powerful way to grow people.

  Brian Tracy

  Powerful, Humorous, Responsibility

  Twitter post from Apr 01, 2016

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• Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.

  Brian Tracy

  Humorous, Management, Deviation

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• Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or engineering, and it was taken for granted that the next generation of Chu's were to follow the family tradition. When the dust had settled, my two brothers and four cousins collected three MDs, four Ph.D.s and a law degree. I could manage only a single advanced degree.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, Cousin, Uncles

  Steven Chu - Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1997.

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• I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mean, Giving, Different

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• Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

  Johannes Tauler

  Blessed, Godly, Exercise

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• Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.

  Tim Cahill

  Ponies, Layers, Firsts

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• Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.

  Harriet Lerner

  Anger, Responsibility, Self

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• I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Long, Sometimes, Wonder

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.

  Robert Powell

  Hard Work, Thinking, Littles

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• You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

  Chuck D

  Masters, Hardest

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2016

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• I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

  Jodi Picoult

  Block, Believe, Writing

  "Jodi Picoult on Writing, Publishing, and What She’s Reading". Interview with Noah Charney, www.thedailybeast.com. April 3, 2012.

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• It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.

  Sara Blakely

  Jobs, Full Time Jobs, Our Lives

  "The New American Couple". Article by Lea Goldman, www.marieclaire.com. March 20, 2011.

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• For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Two, Next Day

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• I love Chloe Sevigny's style - the way she manages to add a touch of rock n' roll to every look.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Rocks, Style, Add

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• I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Writing, Thinking, Specificity

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• As long as I manage investments properly and don't spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that's exactly what I plan to do.

  Marco Arment

  Strong, Long, Safety

  "The One-Person Product". marco.org. May 20, 2013.

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• Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.

  Dido Armstrong

  Mean, Thinking, Mines

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• I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

  Kimberly Caldwell

  Air, Different, Balls

  "Five Questions with Kimberly Caldwell". www.seventeen.com. October 8, 2009.

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• At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

  Peter Carey

  Morning, Book, Writing

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• I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

  Ava DuVernay

  Writing, Keys, Phones

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

  Robert Fortune

  Dwarves, Tree, Chinese

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.143

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