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  • Garry Kasparov The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.
    Source: How Life Imitates Chess (2007) 96
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Abdullah Ibrahim The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
    Abdullah Ibrahim
    South African pianist and composer (1934 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Caitlin Doughty The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Germaine Greer The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Carol Gilligan The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • B. B. King The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Carolyn Wells The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Tom Robbins The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Angela Davis The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Carl Van Vechten The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Barack Obama The change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Wes Smith The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.
    Wes Smith
     
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  • Samuel Johnson The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Wayne Dyer The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Vance Havner The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Lewis Mumford The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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