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• The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

  Derren Brown

  Desire, Quality, Impressive

  "Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, 2009.

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• Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

  Corita Kent

  Art, Creativity, Roots

  Corita Kent, Jan Steward (2008). “Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

  Dalai Lama

  Our World, Goal, Choices

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• The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.

  Simon Sinek

  Goal, Life Is, Our Lives

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2015

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• Let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that pride is a problem only for the lost. The most effective means the enemy has to keep believers from being full of the Spirit is to keep us full of ourselves. No wonder the Bible states and restates that God hates pride. It is the enemy of genuine ministry. It is the end of many homes.

  Beth Moore

  Hate, Home, Pride

  Beth Moore (2009). “Praying God's Word: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds”, p.57, B&H Publishing Group

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• Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mistake, Self, Sorrow

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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• Faith means that you have peace even when you dont have all the answers.

  Joyce Meyer

  Answers

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• Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Growth, May

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2012

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• Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.

  Ray Charles

  Eye, Should

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• The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.

  Chinweizu Ibekwe

  Ignorance, Exercise, White

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• We didn't see any statistically significant relationship between our buzz and our short-term sales...Is that the end of the story? I would say no. This is one study on a set of brands in a particular company within a certain segment of the consumer-packag ed-goods industry. It is by no means a generalized result that applies to all industries.

  Eric Schmidt

  Stories, Buzz, Study

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• I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just put it down. On the whole people that may say the mean things about our world I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of ‘the cool group’ so as a result they just mock it.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Insecure, Thinking

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• We live in what's called an open society, which of course means they open our emails, open our phone records, and open our medical records.

  Jay Leno

  Phones, Email, Records

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• The White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, White, People

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• If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Motivation, Inspiration, Three

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• The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.

  Melinda Gates

  Sex, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Doe

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• The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that way.

  Jack Horner

  Motivation, Inspiration, Dinosaurs

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• Does Rupert like me? I think so, but it doesn't matter. When I go up to the magic room in the sky every three months, if my numbers are right, I get to live. If not, I'm killed. Our relationship isn't about love-it's about arithmetic. Survival means hitting your numbers. I've met or exceeded mine in 56 straight quarters. The reason is: I treat Rupert's money like it is mine.

  Roger Ailes

  Thinking, Sky, Numbers

  "Roger Ailes calls Obama 'lazy' in new biography as book war gets under way" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2013.

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• Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

  Aristotle

  Interesting, Virtue, Ends

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.4080, Catholic Way Publishing

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• To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that may bring us sorrow, distress, or unhappiness, and bear them patiently for as long as God wishes.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Long, Sorrow, Wish

  "The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses".

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• No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.

  Adam Lambert

  Hate, Matter, Fame

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• Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Cancer, Data, Perspective

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• Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.

  Thomas Adams

  Home, Average, Cities

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• Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Men, Doctors, Physicians

  "Out Of Touch:American Men And The Health Care System" by David Sandman, Elisabeth Simantov, and Christina An, March 2000.

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