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Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.
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Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
Robert H. Schuller
American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015) -
Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.
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Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.
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Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Highway 61 Revisited (1965) -
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
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Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
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Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions.
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller
American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015) -
Problems are solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee has to wait for a supervisor's permission.
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
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Products are a must - full stop. I'm sorry to say it, but that bob won't look so sleek on its own - you need a little help. It doesn't have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.
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Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.
Interview from Programmers at Work
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