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• The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Goodness

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 10 (1651)

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• Having the best product means nothing if the people won't buy it.

  Donald A. Norman

  Business, People, Products

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• I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Use, Weapons

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• If you care to be a master or to make a true success of your profession, the smallest detail of your work must be done with thoroughness. To be thorough in medicine means that in the ever alluring present, we do not forget the past.

  David Murray Cowie

  Past, Medicine, Achievement

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• We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.

  Peggy Fleming

  Achievement, Being A Woman, Wanted

  Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The Devil hinders me. You know I say
  Just what I think, and nothing more nor less,
  And, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer.
  I cannot say one thing and mean another.
  If I can't pray, I will not make believe!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, Sincerity, Knows

  "Selected Poems".

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• Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what that means until circumstances cast them headfirst into a dark and painful place. If we give ourselves fully to God in those moments, we will obtain keepsakes of Him to treasure now and forever.

  David Jeremiah

  Faith, Christian, Heart

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• The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Wisdom, Heart, Comfort

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• The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

  Clive James

  Tennis, Bread, Cups

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• To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays.

  Guillermo Canas

  Moving, Hair, Play

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• As far as I'm concerned all theatre is physical. As Aristotle says, you know, theatre is an act and an action, and he didn't mean just the writing of it, he meant that at the centre of any piece there is an action, a physical action.

  Simon McBurney

  Writing, Theatre, Pieces

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• I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.

  Simon McBurney

  Playing Games, Talking, People

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• When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make it, and I'm not sure that it is always aggressive, but when you have a great deal of energy it can appear to be more aggressive than it is. In fact, I mean you can talk about a waterfall being aggressive, but in fact it is just a very powerful forward movement of energy, and although I think sometimes my engine house is a kind of anger.

  Simon McBurney

  Powerful, Thinking, House

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• A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

  George Eliot

  Two, Dubious, Flags

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

  Alvar Aalto

  Immature, Doe, Use

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• Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

  Victor Hugo

  Becoming One, Genius, Available

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• Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint. It is equally true that these qualities need to be infused wiht a certain spirit and vitality, or they degenerate into dullness and mediocrity.

  Stanley Morison

  Discipline, Simplicity, Design

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• Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment.

  Albert Hadley

  People, Design, Trying

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• Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Achievement, Mind

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• The secret of success is to make your mind work for you - not against you. This means constantly being positive, constantly setting up challenges you can meet - either today, next week, or next month etc.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Next Week, Achievement

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• The rhythm of the water, the sunset over the horizon, and the freedom of the ocean reminds me of how simply beautiful life can be. When you move too fast you can miss the things that mean the most. My love for th ocean reminds me of my love for the snow, and my love for life. So enjoy all that life has to offer.

  Tara Dakides

  Beautiful, Ocean, Moving

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• Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brian: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

  Annie Dillard

  Cutting, Animal, Light

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• I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books... It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.

  William Brinkley

  Book, Character, People

  William Brinkley (2013). “The Last Ship: A Novel”, p.65, Penguin

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• If pizza brings you joy, then by all means, love that pizza like your life depends on it. Because it does.

  Andrew W.K.

  Joy, Doe, Like You

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

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• I have the greatest husband. The baby is my main focus right now. We're both so excited. I mean, this is definitely the happiest moment in my life.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Baby, Husband, Focus

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