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• We did not organize press conferences and talk about fighting against corruption, we acted on the ground and brought changes in the schemes to fight corruption.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Corruption, Organize

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• Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracy, Sound, Bottom

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• I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if the scheme does not appear at first sight to be connected with physics. One should concentrate on getting interesting mathematics.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, Sight, Interesting

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• Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.

  Jack Kornfield

  Memories, Writing, Sacrifice

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• Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Interpretation, Rational

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.283, Penguin

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• Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

  Thomas Hood

  Dream, Most Romantic, Fiction

  Thomas Hood (1854). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.248

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• No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

  T. S. Eliot

  Class, Desperate, Accepting

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Idea of a Christian Society”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.

  Bill Ackman

  Believe, Pyramid Schemes, Pyramids

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• Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Patterns, Human Life, Certain

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.217, Psychology Press

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• At Ken Lay's funeral service the minister compared him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The difference is Dr. King had a dream, Ken Lay had a scheme.

  Jay Leno

  Dream, Kings, Differences

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• It is inconceivable that anyone will divulge a truly effective get-rich scheme for the price of a book. There is ample opportunity to use wealth in this world, and neither I nor my friends, nor anyone else I have ever met, has so much of it that they are interested in putting themselves at a disadvantage by sharing their secrets.

  Victor Niederhoffer

  Book, Opportunity, Secret

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• Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

  Bernard Katz

  Atheist, Thinking, Pyramid Schemes

  "Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political". Book by Jack Huberman, 2008.

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• The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

  Robert Burns

  Pain, Disappointment, Grief

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• To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Flower, Mean, Garden

  Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”

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• A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

  Edwin Lutyens

  Garden, Should Have, Ideas

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• Sports don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But in the moment, when things are just right, they're the most important thing in the world. That's what makes them so great.

  David Poole

  Sports, Important, World

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• It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig in the years before 1851, that the vision first appeared of a common type of Life-Cycle, running through Mosses and Ferns to Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants, linking the whole series in one scheme of reproduction and life-history.

  Arthur Harry Church

  Summer, Running, Morning

  Arthur Harry Church, Humphrey John Denham (1919). “Gossypium in Pre-Linnaean Literature”

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• The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

  Dennis Prager

  May, Welfare, States

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• Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets”, p.399

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• Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

  Jill Lepore

  Marketing, Quarters, Stage

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• Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Discovery

  Twitter post from Aug 20, 2016

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• Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Vegetables, Free Food, Source

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• You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy.

  Delano Johnson

  Captivating, Fantastic, Ecstasy

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• Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Names, Faces

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• Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.

  Tao Lin

  Pyramid Schemes, Self, Ideas

  Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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