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• Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself to an idea, to a race, to God? Or does it mean that the higher the model the longer the longer the tether of our slavery?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Mean, Passion, Sacrifice

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

  Maya Angelou

  Cute, Fashion, Women

  "Phenomenal Woman" l. 6 (1978)

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Teacher, Children, Role Models

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• If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Emotional, Rats, Trouble

  "Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences". Robert M. Sapolsky's lecture at Washington State University, October 10, 2001.

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• The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

  Wade Davis

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Unique

  "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World". Book by Wade Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Hey, girls, you're beautiful. Don't look at those stupid magazines with sticklike models. Eat healthy and exercise. That's all. Don't let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You're good enough, you are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it. You are gorgeous, whether you're a size 4 or 14. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a good person, as long as you respect others. I know it's been told hundreds of times before, but it's true. Hey, girls, you are beautiful.

  Gerard Way

  Beautiful, Girl, Stupid

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• In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Struggle, Order, Trying

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• With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Suicidal, Technology, Men

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)

  Neil Postman

  Knowing, Culture, Television

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• Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dog, Play, Role Models

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• Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Size, Existence, Esoteric Wisdom

  "Nature's God". Book by Robert Anton Wilson, 1988.

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• If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  Banksy

  Dirty, Role Models, Roles

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Book, School

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

  Bill Watterson

  Peace, War, Play

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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• Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Hero, Desire, Together

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Smart, Role Models, Addiction

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• Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Mad, Ugly

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• Youth need less critics and more models.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Needs, Youth, Critics

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• Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them).  Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Angel, Light, Blood

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• People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it’s black.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiration, Color, Long

  Of the Model T Ford. Quoted in Allan Nevins Ford (1957), vol.2.

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• ...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe--as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems.

  James Redfield

  Expectations, Way, Flow

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.93, Bantam

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• You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that’s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

  Haruki Murakami

  Reading, People, Guy

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• won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

  Lucille Clifton

  Hands, Bridges, Everyday

  Lucille Clifton (2013). “The Book of Light”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press

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