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  • William Ellery Channing We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Joan Didion We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
    The White Album (1979)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bradley Whitford We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Wise Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.
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  • Ted Engstrom What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
    Ted Engstrom
    American Christian leader (1916 - 2006)
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  • Salvador Dali What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Georges Clemenceau When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • James Baldwin When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Will Durant When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • James Baldwin When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Allen Klein When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Ernest Becker When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.
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  • Campbell Brown When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Gary Zukav When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.
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  • George Bernard Shaw When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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