Quotes with directly

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  • Cass Sunstein Personalization is everywhere. We are constantly asked, directly or indirectly, to create Our Own Whatever - containing and limited to our 'favorite sources of information.' Republicans do that; Democrats do it; environmentalists do it; terrorists do it; science fiction enthusiasts do it. That's a real problem, I think.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Pierre Charron Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
    Pierre Charron
    French philosopher (1541 - 1603)
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  • Carlo Rubbia Quark-antiquark collisions cannot be realized directly since free quarks are not available. The closest substitute is to use collisions between protons and antiprotons.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Barack Obama So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Brad Meltzer Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Anthony Holden That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • A. R. Ammons That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Douglas Engelbart The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
    Douglas Engelbart
    American engineer and inventor (1925 - 2013)
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  • Charles H. Parkhurst The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
    Charles H. Parkhurst
    American clergyman and social reformer (1842 - 1933)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen There ain't a note that I play on stage that can't be traced back directly to my mother and father.
    Bruce Springsteen Talking
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • C. Wright Mills What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Jim Rohn What you become directly influences what you get.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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