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• Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I’d done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

  Clive Barker

  Regret, Too Late, Done

  Clive Barker (2010). “Galilee”, p.55, HarperCollins UK

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• I listen to hundreds of those hymns sung repeatedly over the years of my life. And I know that they probably influenced a rhyme scheme maybe to certain extent. They influenced the pentameter of placement of words, etc. And it's not something that's a conscious thing that occurred.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Years, Hymns, Etc

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Teacher, Children, Book

  "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Remember to remember your power - everything you've learned with these steps to financial freedom - and put it all into practice everyday, because in the grand scheme of life, you'll never really know how things are meant to turn out until they turn out.

  Suze Orman

  Practice, Everyday, Steps

  Suze Orman (1999). “The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying”, p.285, Crown Business

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• Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

  Leonard Cohen

  Baby, Children, War

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• What’s life in this nation? Collect emptiness in a household of cornflakes. Transient fuel gobbles attention, the television aches, the truth walks. Scheme worms welcome your corpse, trap clicks and you’re in heaven, bored rigid

  Steve Aylett

  Bored, Heaven, Attention

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• I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jobs, Thinking, Hands

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2011). “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?”, p.53, Peschel Press

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• Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level of profit he won't accept. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter came up with this scheme that resulted in the subprime mortgage crisis. They said it was unfair that poor and minority people didn't have houses, so we're basically gonna give 'em houses. How are we gonna do that? We're going to make the banks loan them money, knowing full well they can't pay it back.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Knowing, People, Giving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think that the spirit of America is still very much one of where people want to work hard and the majority of people want to work hard. They want to be entrepreneurs. But when you have that all taken away with government regulation or with government overbearance of taxation, you start to wonder whether if it's even worthwhile because who are you really working for? Are you working for yourself, are you working for the government? In the end, this wealth distribution scheme that's at the heart of the current political administration is an inherently wrong one.

  Robin Leach

  Taken, Hard Work, Heart

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

  Philip Yancey

  Lonely, Pain, Love You

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• Time is a big enemy. Companies have a tendency to drift and to do what was successful yesterday. CEOs need to set a high goal, enforce a time-based output scheme and stay connected all the way down in their organization. They have to do this sincerely every day, everywhere.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Successful, Organization, Yesterday

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.

  Gavin de Becker

  Denial, Pay

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in an earlier incarnation and which has been sort of the mainstream of economic theories since Adam Smith and David Ricardo. There are all sorts of contractual relations between firms and individuals which do not conform to the simple price theory - profit-sharing schemes and so forth - and the explanation for these suddenly became clear. We now understand why these emerged and that they are based on differences in information in the economy.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Simple, Differences, World

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• We want to limit the exploitation of the fiscal capacity of the richer regions by keeping down the rate of immigration to a level that would be meaningful and efficient. One way to do that is to have a scheme of equalization which essential bribes people to stay in the poorer regions.

  James M. Buchanan

  Meaningful, People, Levels

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• It is much more difficult to get implemented politically what might be desirable economically. Even if you came out with an economic argument in favor of equalization - and I think there are arguments on both sides - I would still come down in favour of some sort of a scheme on strict economic grounds.

  James M. Buchanan

  Thinking, Favors, Might

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.

  James Lovelock

  Wind Turbines, Energy, Windmills

  "James Lovelock on shale gas and the problem with 'greens'". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

  D. J. MacHale

  Fun, Hero, Writing

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• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

  H. L. Mencken

  Trust, Marriage, Mutual Interest

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• To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292)

  Don DeLillo

  Order, Design, Funeral

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• We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.

  William E. Rees

  Age, Gone, Stories

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• Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it cannot limit that by which alone it had existence; and as the natural course of time, which to us seems infinite, cannot be bounded by any operation that may have an end, the progress of things upon this globe, that is, the course of nature, cannot be limited by time, which must proceed in a continual succession.

  James Hutton

  Time, Science, Ideas

  James Hutton (1788*). “Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).”, p.7

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• Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

  John Otway

  Funny, Gambling, Creative

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• Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Encouragement, Doing Nothing, Easy

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• There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Pain, Color, Brain

  "Evolution of the Human Brain". Lecture by Roger Wolcott Sperry, 1964.

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• Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Emotional, Evil People, Soul

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