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• The West as a whole in the early 1990s become obsessed with a 'peace dividend' that would be spent over and over again on any number of soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed causes. Politicians forget that the only real peace dividend is peace.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Numbers, West

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• The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

  Alastair Campbell

  Doctors, Media, Medicine

  "Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

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• Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

  Fritjof Capra

  Men, Obsession, Disaster

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• Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

  Maureen Dowd

  Beautiful, Way, Forgotten

  Maureen Dowd (2006). “Are Men Necessary When Sexes Collide”

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• I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.

  Nadia Giosia

  Years, Television, Comedy

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• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  L'Wren Scott

  Proportion

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

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• It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of a child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas to stand and stare Very rarely are we able to free our minds of thoughts and emotions and just see for the simple pleasure of seeing. And so long as we fail to do this, so long will the essence of things be hidden from us.

  Bill Brandt

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Thinking, Light, Righteous

  Anzia Yezierska (2014). “Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

  Lanford Wilson

  Atoms, Bombs, Firsts

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• I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Cells, Class, Firsts

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• I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.

  Jan Morris

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel engaged in an important, even vital and personally ennobling mission; their task dominates all other considerations; and although such intense teams tend to remain intact only for a relatively short period of time, that time is remembered nostalgically and in considerable detail by its members.

  Jean Lipman-Blumen

  Team, Passion, Style

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• Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful but sometimes overwhelming, to look beyond his animal existence and not be fully satisfied with its immediate substance. He lacks the complacency of the other animals: he is obsessed by pride and guilt, pride at being something more than a mere animal, built at falling short of the high aims he sets for himself.

  Lewis Mumford

  Fall, Pride, Men

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• You seem to be absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of marriage - which is destructive to both man and woman. Love is creative, marriage is destructive. But love is not dependable: this moment it may be there and the next moment gone. And man wants permanent things; he is obsessed with permanent things. He wants security, safety, he wants to cling. Hence love is not reliable, so he created marriage.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Love Is, Men

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• I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.

  Zhuangzi

  World, Way, Herds

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• Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Sullen, Grumpy

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• Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a particular nation, a sense of loyalty to a moral code, and strict adherence to concepts of right and wrong. Chisholm has been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong, love of country and morality in children by their parents is the paramount evil.

  John A. Stormer

  Loyalty, Country, Children

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• There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Differences, Design, Motivated

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• I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

  Eduardo Galeano

  Past, Scrapbooking, Remember

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• I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

  Aaron Levie

  Three, Asking, Brilliant

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• To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Animal, Mind

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Anger, Years, House

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• I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, 'I love what I look like and this is who I am,' or be the person who is obsessed with diet and exercise and keeping toned. What feels more realistic to me is that some days I wake up and think I love how I look. On other days I say, 'If I had real self-control, I would be 10 pounds lighter.' That contradiction is, to me, what being a girl actually feels like.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Zero, Real

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• We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being.

  Satish Kumar

  Spiritual, Mean, Opposites

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• Ive always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.

  Amy Acker

  Audrey, Hepburn

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