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• Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.

  Frank Ocean

  Attitude, Who I Am, Personality

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• Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.

  Frank H. T. Rhodes

  Friendship, Skills, May

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• The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.

  Ayn Rand

  Struggle, Men, Strive

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.12, Penguin

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• Change for me was really hard because I had built myself up to be a certain kind of man my whole life, as men are where I come from. I thought I got to handle things different that's gonna make me feel like a real pussy. For me it was hard to turn the other cheek. Even though it's a stronger choice. It was very hard to make the change, but I had to in order to survive. Otherwise they would have won.

  Mickey Rourke

  Real, Men, Order

  "Mickey Rourke Talks Immortals, Life, and Sin City". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. October 31, 2011.

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• The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

  Richard Stallman

  Powerful, Appreciate, Missing

  "How I Do My Computing". Personal Website, www.stallman.org.

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• The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.

  James Madison

  Men, Political, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

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• Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

  Rudolph Rummel

  People, Liberty, Libertarian

  "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.

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• There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.

  Demosthenes

  Country, Mind, Democracy

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• Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

  Horatio Nelson

  Opportunity, Justice, Thank God

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.

  Diana Ross

  Reality, Want, Ask Me

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• What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

  Donella Meadows

  Reason, Lied, Clinton

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• Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Taken, Escaping, Risk

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• In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Hands, Doubt

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• Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.

  Steve Blank

  Development, Waterfalls, Temperature

  Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.29, BookBaby

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• It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

  Alan Perlis

  Data, Function, Structure

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• Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Possibility

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.50, Oxford University Press

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• Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will ne'er let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Letting Go, Tomorrow, Tire

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• If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

  Adnan Pachachi

  Country, War, People

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• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

  Marcus Garvey

  Life, Confidence, Race

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.

  Lauren Conrad

  Loyalty, Good Friend, Thinking

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• We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

  Joseph Joubert

  Past, Safety, Wish

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• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Fear, Business

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.471, Best Books on

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• I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, Long, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Country, Witty, Wall

  "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War that is Destroying America". Book by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel, 2007.

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• Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cutting, Sunday, Republican

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