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• I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage.

  Jamie Dimon

  Fall, Risk, Growth

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• What I know for sure is that it's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow. That doesn't necessarily mean your process will necessarily lead you to wealth or fame. In fact, your dream may have nothing to do with tangible prosperity and everything to do with creating a life filled with joy, one with no regrets and a clear conscience. I've learned that wealth is a tool that gives you choices, but it can't compensate for a life not fully lived and it certainly can't create a sense of peace within you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Regret, Creating

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• The American Dream means being part of a society that allows you to be or do whatever you want, and to have a sense that your individual optimism and hard work will be rewarded. It exists outside of the U.S. as well as inside. People continue to come here because they want to improve their lives, they want to be able to support themselves and they want to live in freedom. A lot of people who criticize this country still send their children here to study.

  Madeleine Albright

  Dream, Country, Children

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• Do you know-I hardly remembered you?
  Hardly remembered me?
  I mean: how shall I explain? I-it's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again.

  Edith Wharton

  Literature, Remembered, Happens

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.200, VM eBooks

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• Your question makes it clear that you have not understood what I mean when I say, 'Don't surrender to a person, surrender to love.' And love is never a relationship; this is your problem. Relationship is bound to be a bondage. In relationship either you have to surrender or the other has to surrender.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Love Is, And Love

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• You don't seem to have guts. There is no need to surrender to each other. Surrender to love means: enjoy in the happiness of the other, rejoice in the being of the other; be in tune with each other, dance in harmony.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Tunes, Needs

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• The question of surrender is political, it is not a question of love. And relationship is not love at all; it means love has ended and relationship has begun. It begins very soon after the honeymoon - mostly in the middle of the honeymoon. It is not easy to live with another person whose life-style is different, whose likings are different, whose education and culture is different, and above all the other happens to be a woman - even their biology is different.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Political, Style

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• Relationship means something complete, finished, closed. Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never ends. It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon. Lovers end, love continues. It is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Love Is, Rivers

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• Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Aquifers, Air

  "Possibility and Hope". Interview with Linda C. Forbes, monthlyreview.org. January 1, 2015.

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• Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive.

  Jason Mewes

  Weed, Marijuana, Sometimes

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• Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be grateful? No, no, a thousand times, no!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Positive, Running, Grateful

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.46, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

  Geoffrey Madan

  Silence, Luck, Assuming

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• Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, People, Growth

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.70, Random House

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• Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

  Claude Shannon

  Cybernetics, Use, Internet

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• The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Rights, Dramatic

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• I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," "I think the animal rights movement has been restrained in its use of force, mostly because people in the struggle are often people of privilege who aren't willing to risk losing that privilege.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Struggle, Animal, Boys

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• Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

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• Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

  Vernon Howard

  Animal, Civilization, Goal

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• The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.

  David Rosen

  Animal, Meat Consumption, Healthy

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• The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Men, Talking

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• To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

  Epictetus

  Aging

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.490

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• That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

  Clare Short

  Peace, Anger, Justice

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• Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

  James Mattis

  Military, Real, Understanding

  "General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Email About Being 'Too Busy To Read' Is A Must-Read" by Geoffrey Ingersoll, www.businessinsider.com. May 09, 2013.

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• Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

  Greg Ray

  Latin, Term Paper, Paraphrase

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• When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language

  John Irving

  Past, People, Language

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