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• I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

  John le Carre

  Truth, Power, Thinking

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• Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Demand, Littles, Sometimes

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• We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

  Booker T. Washington

  Intelligent, Hands, Ideas

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• ... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

  Eugene Wigner

  Purpose, Mathematics, Operations

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.536, Springer Science & Business Media

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• As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Men, Bread Of Life

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perfection, Masters, Workers

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rip, Evil, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (1996). “The nature writings of Henry David Thoreau”

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• If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

  Andre Gide

  Flower, Men, Worry

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• I think there was a bit of brotherly love, but I think everything has a motive when you're king. It's all about maintaining that power - securing that power - and I think Edward was very skillful at doing that. I think he was a great king. Opinions are split, if you look at what he's done and written about him.

  Max Irons

  Kings, Thinking, Looks

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.

  Takashi Miike

  Wise, Fun, Thinking

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.

  John Locke

  Hands, Thorough Knowledge, Gentleman

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 94), 1693.

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• God works in many ways His wonders to perform. But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road.

  Paul Goodman

  Men, Miracle, Would Be

  Paul Goodman (1968). “People or personnel: decentralizing and the mixed systems ; and, Like a conquered province : the moral ambiguity of America”

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• It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.

  Ed Parker

  Powerful, Students, Respectful

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• The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

  John Adams

  Independent, Blessing, Government

  "Thoughts on Government" (1776)

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• In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Stupid, Eight, Europe

  Source: pokerworks.com

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• Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.

  Anne Waldman

  Mean, Technology, Use

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the most critical issue of the last century is thus history at its best. Thompson's judicious and delicious depiction of Nitze and Kennan will fascinate anyone who cares about the Cold War or the ways that human beings shape the future.

  Jonathan Alter

  War, Hands, Two

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• Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Journey, Other Worlds

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• Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, People, Literature

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.197

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• Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.

  Richard Hornby

  Self, Everyday, Acting

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• Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Practice, Breathing

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• Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Player, Casting

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• Always leave people with a solution; the heaven if you do versus the hell if you don't. If you're really skillful you can put the person into the future solution. Shoaff used to say, 'Jim, I can see you now in your new clothes, in your new home, in your new car. I can see others walking up to you.' The Promise of the Future is an Awesome Force!

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Home

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• What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Liberty, Citizens

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “The Subjection of Women ... Third Edition”, p.180

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• The skillful tactician may be likened to the shuai-jan. Now the shuai-jan is a snake that is found in the Ch'ang mountains. Strike at its head, and you will be attacked by its tail; strike at its tail, and you will be attacked by its head; strike at its middle, and you will be attacked by head and tail both.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Snakes

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.66, Xist Publishing

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