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  • I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
  • I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.
  • Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
  • Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
  • The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
  • Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
  • Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
  • As for Colt 45, I am very proud of my endorsement of the product, and it still 'Works every time.'
  • I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
  • Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
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  • Anita Brookner A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • William R. Alger Words of love, are works of love.
    William R. Alger
    American writer (1822 - 1905)
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  • Fred A. Allen A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Eugene F. Ware The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.
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  • Morarji Desai It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
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  • John N. Mitchell Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
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  • Amelia Earhart The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • David Gemmell A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.
    Quest For Lost Heroes (2011) 43
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Plato All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Samuel Johnson Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Joseph Joubert Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Jonathan Swift If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Barbara Hepworth My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Barbara Kruger There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Barack Obama A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Freeman Dyson A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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