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• My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.

  Shane Warne

  Struggle, Balls, Pitching

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• The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Father, Republic, Hundred

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• Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Thinking, Rocks, Views

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• Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Stupid, Ignorance, Feelings

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• We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.

  Traudl Junge

  Mistake, Thinking, Voice

  Traudl Junge (2012). “Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. They will control the climate and the Solar System just as they control the Earth. They will travel beyond the limits of our planetary system; they will reach other Suns, and use their fresh energy instead of the energy of their dying luminary.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Ocean, Men, Years

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• On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.

  Edward Teller

  Heart, Next Day, Islands

  2 page advertisement sponsored by Dresser Industries in the "Wall Street Journal", July 31, 1979.

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• If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.

  Paolo Soleri

  Ego, Important, Done

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• What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiration, Men, Competition

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• In that realm you will know at last the good news: that your "devil" does not exist, that you are who you always thought you were-goodness and love. Your idea that you might be something else has come from an insane outer world, causing you to act insanely. An outer world of judgment and condemnation. Others have judged you, and from their judgments you have judged yourself. Now you want God to judge you, and I will not do it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Ideas, Judging

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 2: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love (Anniv)”, p.53, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Teacher, Simple, Thinking

  Frances Moore Lappé, Paul Martin Du Bois (1994). “The quickening of America: rebuilding our nation, remaking our lives”, Jossey-Bass

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• The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

  Richard Louv

  Real, War, Simple

  Richard Louv (1998). “Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us”, p.123, Conari Press

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• You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Funny, Masters, Cunning

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• [On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

  Warren Spahn

  Running, Zero, Home

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

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• Mentally imagine you are buying the business or applying for the job that will earn your fortune. Review each step you'd take, the obstacles you might meet, the difficulties you would meet. Continue imagining each step until you mentally reach your wealth goal.

  Tyler Gregory Hicks

  Success, Jobs, Business

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• If i'm not trying my best, I might as well retire.

  Derrick Rose

  Basketball, Trying, Retiring

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• Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Waiting, Bully, Promise

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• She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I amwithout adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.

  Sharon Maas

  Country, Independence, World

  Sharon Maas (2014). “Of Marriageable Age”, p.395, Bookouture

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• Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north

  Michael Pollan

  Balance

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-eye View of the World”, Random House Trade Paperbacks

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• You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Interesting, Polls, Wells

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• We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Healthy, Suffering, Selfishness

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• You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

  Dave Davies

  Technology, Interesting, Leave Me Alone

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• To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

  George Washington

  Past, Experience, Impossible

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Light, Next Week

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

  Alan Bennett

  Littles, Statistics, Standards

  "Forty Years On" by Alan Bennett, Act 2, (p. 80), 1972.

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