Quotes with hour-and-a-half

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  • Ian Mcewan By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Robert Cialdini By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
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  • Grenville Kleiser By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Caroline Knapp By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Bob Menendez By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Ben Horowitz By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Alexander Pope By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bill Flores By fostering competition, leveling the playing field, and increasing transparency, we can bring America's health care sector into the 21st century.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carol Loomis By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Mark Twain By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again - and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bradley A. Smith By law, super PACs are required to disclose their donors. There are groups that have never had to disclose their donors, non-profits such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, and the NRA. If you want more disclosure, super PACs are a step forward.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • John Butler Yeats By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
    John Butler Yeats
    Irish painter (1839 - 1922)
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  • Dan Cruickshank By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
    Letters and Soc. Aims
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edward Young By night an atheist half believes in God.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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