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  • Henry Miller The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Burroughs The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Michel Foucault The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the ''outlaw,'' the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Bob Rae The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Mark Twain The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Sam Snead The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
    Sam Snead
    American professional golfer (1912 - 2002)
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  • Billy Beane The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Michel de Certeau The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • William Arthur Ward The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Bertrand Russell The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
    Conquest of Happiness Ch. 1: What Makes People Unhappy?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barry Commoner The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Seneca The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Marian Anderson The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Robert Wilson The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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