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• Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.

  Juan Manuel Marquez

  Education, Peace, Technology

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• What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Commitment, What Matters, Genuine

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• Fundamentalist Christians are my sisters and brothers, my family and friends, my oldest colleagues and coworkers. But I fear their love for the nation has become an obsession to reshape it in their own image.

  Mel White

  Christian, Brother, Family And Friends

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• By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so called 'diversity' actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.

  Ron Paul

  Racism, Diversity, Identity

  "Government and Racism" by Ron Paul, April 16, 2007.

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• I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition or anything like that - Warrenhas always been very open about what he's learned, and I share that ethos. My personal behavior model is Lord Keynes: I wanted to get rich so I could be independent, and so I could do other things like give talks on the intersection of psychology and economics. I didn't want to turn it into a total obsession.

  Charlie Munger

  Teaching, Independent, Ethos

  Charlie Munger's speech on the psychology of human misjudgment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 1995.

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• The faithful witness, like...Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent...He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.

  John Ralston Saul

  People, Faithful, Causes

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• The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a private business enterprise for purposes of limiting personal liability, issuing stock, filing financial reports and paying taxes. Other forms include partnerships and sole proprietorships. Are they less evil? You buy your groceries from corporations, your cars, newspapers, cellphones, clothing and exercise equipment. Your parents and children work for corporations. Are they evil?

  Mike Rosen

  Children, Exercise, Evil

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• If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said - unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It’s like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder.

  Ann Coulter

  Talking, Two, Age

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• People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

  David Adam

  Creativity, Anchors, Sea

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• I didn't know the extent of American obsession with Uganda until I got there and saw it. You ride in the plane and it's filled with American missionaries. Uganda is the No. 1 destination for American missionaries in the world.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Uganda, World, Saws

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• I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.

  Gina Gershon

  Littles, Obsessed

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• My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps reflecting the fact that for the first time in my life I feel really free. I have been fascinated with wings all my life. I have had an obsession with transcendence, the need to push forward and metaphorically fly.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Artistic Life, Wings

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• The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

  Francois Gautier

  Caste System, West, Obsessed

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• Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.

  Boy George

  Sex, Nice, Bags

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• What is it with this American booty culture? It seems to me to be a form of obsession.

  Pippa Middleton

  Booty, Culture, Form

  "Kim Kardashian Compliments Pippa Middleton's 'Amazing Booty'". www.foxnews.com. December 15, 2014.

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• Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

  Susan Kay

  Names, Voice, Mind

  "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.

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• I'm obsessed with books.

  David Sylvian

  Book, Obsessed

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• Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

  Rae Dawn Chong

  People, Looks, Unattractive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

  Robert Kuttner

  Wall, Views, Should Have

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.51, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobe’s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobe’s mouth were, ‘You know I can kick your ass one on one.’

  Phil Jackson

  Teamwork, Attitude, Player

  "Phil Jackson's new book focuses a lot on (who else?) Kobe Bryant" by Mike Bresnahan, articles.latimes.com. May 16, 2013.

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• Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

  Utada Hikaru

  Japan, People, Obsessed

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

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• The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

  Thomas Sowell

  Athlete, Income, Steel

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• Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

  Franz Kafka

  Hate, Intense, Great Writing

  Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

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• George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Thinking, America, Hands

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• My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

  Paul Theroux

  Islands, Self, World

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