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• I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.

  Merle Haggard

  Song, Thinking, Littles

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• Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others.

  Laurie Helgoe

  People, Too Much, Kind

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• It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. ... Music should never be harmless. ... I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

  Robbie Robertson

  Country, Song, Nice

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• All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record. ... Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

  Cat Stevens

  Song, Sweet, Real

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• Intolerance lies at the core of evil. Not the intolerance that results from any threat or danger. But intolerance of another being who dares to exist. Intolerance without cause. It is so deep within us, because every human being secretly desires the entire universe to himself. Our only way out is to learn compassion without cause. To care for each other simple because that 'other' exists.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Lying, Simple, Compassion

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• The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave and manifest public need. They can be made permanently unselfish only by being helped to become disinterested in their individual purposes. In the complete democracy a man must in some way be made to serve the nation in the very act of contributing to his own individual fulfillment. Not until his personal action is dictated by disinterested motives can there be any such harmony between private and public interests.

  Herbert Croly

  Religious, Men, Democracy

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• Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.

  Mary McCarthy

  Believe, Giving, Historical

  Mary McCarthy (1961). “On the contrary”, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy

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• The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Be Good

  Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) act 2

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• But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  News, Paradise, Green

  Flying Inn (1914) ch. 21 "Rolling English Road"

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• Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Funny, Money, Men

  "Of Worldly Goods", Aphorism 24,

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• We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Men, World

  'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 37 (The Gentleman in Blue)

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• I feel that homophobia runs rampant in the music industry, and that artists are allowed to speak openly in a hateful way, in a homophobic way, in a misogynistic way, and the press does not challenge them. And I'm going to be taking a very strong stance against that, and I am an artist who refuses to accept that behavior.

  Lady Gaga

  Running, Strong, Artist

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• Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

  Albert Einstein

  Business, People, Management

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• Quickest way to build trust: Keep promises you make, don't over-promise. Over-deliver, don't under-deliver. If you say you'll do something, make sure you do but if things then run late or go wrong, tell your client at the earliest opportunity

  Phil Harding

  Running, Business, Opportunity

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• The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience

  Phil Harding

  Business, Two, Greed

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• Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves

  John Bright

  Business, People, Training

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• Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way

  Terry Leahy

  Business, Past, Thinking

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• The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Attitude, Men, Moral

  Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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• Any change in attitude changes the way one sees the world, and this in turn changes the way one acts.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Attitude, World, Turns

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• The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.

  David Hockney

  Art, Mean, People

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• All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.

  Armistead Maupin

  Heart, Light, Joy

  Armistead Maupin (1994). “More Tales of the City”, Harper Perennial

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• Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lying, People, Support

  Vaclav Havel, John Keane (2016). “The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe”, p.43, Routledge

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• Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

  John Berger

  Talking, Evil, Needs

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.762, Vintage

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• The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

  Diane Wood

  Able, Would Be, Needs

  "Chicago judge's record rates highly among progressives, colleagues" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2010.

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