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  • I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
  • Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible - even when those steps are taken on the run.
  • For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.
  • Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets.
  • It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
  • It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
  • Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
  • AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
  • I have taken great care not to deride, bewail, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.
  • If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
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  • William Shakespeare Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bayard Taylor Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Albert Einstein If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Washington If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • William Wordsworth That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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  • George Eliot There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Shakespeare There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Wyndham Lewis ''Revolution'' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Edmund Burke A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • C. E. Montague A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
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  • Salman Rushdie A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
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    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Tony Robbins A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Alexander Chase A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Susan Sontag AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
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    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Casey Affleck All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some frequent bathhouses in groups. Some don't show each other the soles of their shoes or like pictures taken of them. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks. Some don't use electricity.
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    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Bret Michaels All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.
    Bret Michaels
    American singer-songwriter, musician and actor (1963 - )
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