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• Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Cancer, Loss

  Interview with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2007.

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• My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Thinking, Views

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• When you think about it in the big scheme of things our time together is like a dash of spice in a big cosmic soup - important for richness of flavor but still not quite the main ingredient. The past is over. It can't and shouldn't be reclaimed. All we ever have is now anyway.

  Alyson Noel

  Past, Thinking, Important

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• My business was born out of my frustration with other cashback schemes. I wanted a more curated service than the other sites offer.

  Kate Thornton

  Frustration, Born, Site

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• It is indeed impossible to describe reality 'in itself', but that does not mean that our lives are answerable to nothing but our own conventions and commitments. They are answerable to a way of things that transcends the reach of our conceptual schemes.

  David E. Cooper

  Mean, Commitment, Reality

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The opportunity that is unique [to our] time is what inspires me to do everything I can to move things forward. This is the first time that we have the capacity to understand our place in the greater scheme of things to the extent that we do.

  Sylvia Earle

  Moving, Unique, Opportunity

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Top Down, Pyramid Schemes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Nobody's life is perfect and in the grand scheme of things, life is short. I think it's so important to live life to its fullest and choose to smile.

  Tia Mowry

  Live Life, Life Is Short, Thinking

  "ORIGIN SERIES: Tia Mowry On the importance of optimism, her endometriosis diagnosis, and happiness as a choice". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme

  Mary Hoffman

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are really three players: 'absolutists', for whom it is possible to describe reality as it anyway is; 'constructivists' or 'humanists', for whom there is nothing beyond a world that is relative to human interests and conceptual schemes; and 'ineffabilists', like myself, for whom any describable world indeed exists 'only in relation to man', as Heidegger put it, but for whom, as well, there is an ineffable realm 'beyond the human'.

  David E. Cooper

  Player, Reality, Men

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's not that you're not smart anymore; it's that you're unwilling to do it. Coaches who coach know what I'm talking about. You just keep battling to help your coaches and your players, to refine your scheme, to break down your opponent, to find ways to travel and take care of your players.

  Pete Carroll

  Smart, Player, Talking

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds.

  Nigel Gibson

  Hatred, Disputes, Liberation

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.

  James Boswell

  Book, Way, Chance

  James Boswell (2015). “Life of Johnson: Top Biography”, p.1727, 谷月社

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• It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American.

  Gene Kelly

  Dancer, Trying, Males

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Regret, Never Let Me Go, Poor

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.233, Faber & Faber

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• Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Book, Mean, Library

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.322, LSU Press

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• I stuck with my education, you know, I really did that for my grandma. It meant a lot to her that I finished school and in the grand scheme of things it was her who had saved and helped provide for me this opportunity to go to school.

  G-Eazy

  Grandma, School, Opportunity

  Source: bestfan.com

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• It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

  Ian C. Esslemont

  Mind, Suffering, Might

  Ian C. Esslemont (2011). “Stonewielder: A Novel of the Malazan Empire”, p.234, Macmillan

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• Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

  Daniel Handler

  Running, Secret, Trying

  "The End". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Independent, Personality, Creative

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Take Root Media

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• Post-genocide Rwanda has managed to implement a good universal health insurance scheme that covers a large proportion of the population. This came about because of the severity of the country's problems and the resulting high proportion of women in the parliament and among professional caregivers, which had a positive effect on policy.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Population, Caregivers

  Source: www.who.int

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• In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Patriotic, Alternatives

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Office, People

  Grover Cleveland (1904). “Presidential Problems”

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• I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

  Robertson Davies

  Wise, Blue, Hands

  "The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks". Book by Robertson Davies, 1947.

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• There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

  Jane Austen

  Disappointment, Attitude, Expectations

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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