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• The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure of this: we in fact cannot aver with any degree of certainty that we are ignorant. Yet this is not so bad; we have at any rate kept our open-mindedness -- that, at least, we may be sure that we have -- and are not in any danger, or so it seems, of freezing into the pious attitudes of those true spiritual bigots whose faces are turned toward eternity and who therefore can see nothing.

  John Ashbery

  Spiritual, Attitude, Reality

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• Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?

  Elizabeth Warren

  Jobs, Wall, Oil

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• The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivation, Failure, Inspiration

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• We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

  Evelyn Waugh

  School, Class, Literature

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 1, ch. 1

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• Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That's not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Country, Truth, Years

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• When people are told to "eat many small meals," what they may actually hear is "eat all the time," making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals.

  Andrew Weil

  Thinking, People, Degrees

  "Intermittent Fasting: A Healthy Choice" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2012.

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• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Cheerful, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2017). “Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) (PublishDrive)

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• Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

  Rebecca West

  Powerful, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.175, Open Road Media

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• The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

  Ron White

  Hard Work, Age, Fans

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• President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s when Wall Street reached record high levels and the economy produced lots of jobs.

  Juan Williams

  Jobs, Wall, President

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• Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

  Ron Wyden

  Suicide, Stress, Divorce

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• Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

  Ron Wyden

  Government, Leaving, Rural Areas

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• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  Fareed Zakaria

  America, Innovation, Growth

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• Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

  Jacob Zuma

  Country, Democracy, Fundamentals

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• I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

  Tucker Max

  Kids, Mature, Disabled

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

  Edward Abbey

  Survival, Machines, World

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• Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

  Robert Frost

  Order, Amount

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• If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Fall, Eye

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• All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Believe, Writing

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.

  Laurie R. King

  Leaving, Details, Daily Life

  Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.785, Bantam

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• On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Wisdom, Zero

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• ... He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a ferry. You didn't have to think about what you had to do or where you had to go for the next few hours. It was all laid out for you.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, People, Perspective

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• Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Home, Fighting

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

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• f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Law, Let It Go

  "Civil Disobedience". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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