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  • Bill McKibben If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bodhidharma If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • George Bernard Shaw If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Haythum R. Khalid If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the cord.
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  • Lee Iacocca If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Salman Rushdie If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Branford Marsalis If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bernard Hinault Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.
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  • J. William Fulbright In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.
    J. William Fulbright
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1905 - 1995)
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  • Arne Jacobsen In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Malcolm X In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Norman Mailer In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
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  • Norman Vincent Peale In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Oscar Wilde In life there is really no great or small thing. All things are of equal value and of equal size.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • E. B. White In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Cat Stevens In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Carl Rogers In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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