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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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Perhaps the central reason that Ahmadinejad's message, and the hundreds of thousands of voices echoing his call throughout the world, are so dangerous is because the Free World is making precious little effort to assert its own message.
Source: Reprinted in Live from NYs 92nd Street Y continues. Vail Daily. October 7, 2007. Discussing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
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Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.
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Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
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President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
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Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a sin, exploitation of other people might, on the face of it, look rather nasty, but who can blame a man for ''doing the best'' for his children?
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Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
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Really take the time to focus on finding your voice and making sure that whatever you're creating is of high quality and is useful for people in their everyday lives.
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Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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S a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
Source: White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951) -
Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
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