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Instead of asking - ''How much damage will the work in question bring about?'' why not ask - ''How much good? How much joy?''
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Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.
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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
Florence Nightingale
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Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
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Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
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Intelligence is like an underwear. It is important that you have it, but not necessary that you show it off.
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Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.
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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
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Is it true?
Can you absolutely know that it's true?
How do you react when you believe that thought?
Who would you be without the thought?Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002) -
Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.
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It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.
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It brings to mind a story Mickey liked to tell on himself. He pictured himself at the pearly gates, met by St. Peter, who shook his head and said, 'Mick, we checked the record. We know some of what went on. Sorry, we can't let you in, but before you go, God wants to know if you'd sign these six dozen baseballs.
Eulogy for Mickey Mantle, Dallas, Tex., 15 August 1995
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