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• Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings... I try to move into his terrain, bringing my own ammunition... I do not believe... that this belittles my own personality.

  Rico Lebrun

  Believe, Moving, Personality

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• The key is to design great golf courses all around the world. But my plan is only to do a select few. I devote so much of my time to these. I'm kind of a hands-on kind of person. I always want to do the best that I can in all of my life and this is no different.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Keys, Hands

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• Free markets select for winning solutions.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Winning, Free Market, Solutions

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• I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Fall, Light, Mind

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2015). “A Daughter of the Land”, p.245, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to act, to create - all of these are inherent in a love of reading.

  Frances Clarke Sayers

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Frances Clarke Sayers, Marjeanne Jensen Blinn (1965). “Summoned by Books: Essays and Speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers”, New York : Viking Press

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• I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

  Isabel Burton

  Thinking, Shining, Waiting

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• Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age--flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Garden, Tree

  Thomas Guthrie (1874). “The Gospel in Ezekiel: A Series of Discourses”, p.269

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• It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.

  George Henry Lewes

  Running, Believe, Men

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind”, p.429

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• What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Effort, Receiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Modern Library

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• The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

  Boris Sidis

  Men, Artist, Attention

  "The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology" by Boris Sidis, (p. 98), 1914.

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• Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away

  Chanakya

  Country, Self, People

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• The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

  Howard Jacobson

  Girl, Smoking, Chocolate

  Howard Jacobson (1998). “No more mister nice guy”, Random House (UK)

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• The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

  George Eliot

  And Love, Enough, Unison

  George Eliot (2006). “Adam Bede Volume Ii EasyRead Large Editi”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality. In fact, we can neglect nothing because everything we select or do sends a message to the observer.

  Alton Tobey

  Unique, Creating, Quality

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• I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Symphony, Wife, Way

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• In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Girl, Mother, Strong

  "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 221), 1970.

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• Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Mean, Men, Intellectual

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• There is no architect
  Can build as the Muse can;
  She is skilful to select
  Materials for her plan.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Muse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.150, The Floating Press

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• When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing.

  Stephen Hawking

  Children, Teens, World

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Creating, Humanity

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• Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Thinking, Care, Disturbed

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.76, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Therefore, be honest with yourself as to why you are choosing to do a particular thing. Then, do it gladly, knowing that you are always getting to do what you want. The statement "I have no choice" is a lie. You can choose. You simply do not prefer the alternatives available to you, for whatever reason. So you select the outcome that you most prefer.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Lying, Knowing, Choices

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• In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

  Raymond Aron

  Writing, Two, Firsts

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• Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Men, Rights, Hands

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• Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.

  E. Merrill Root

  Fastidious

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