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That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.
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The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.
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The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
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The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
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The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
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The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.
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