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• Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual; and when you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust to him where that passion is concerned.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Passion, Men, Remember

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• No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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• I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes down to, because it's such a dominant capitalist society, everything becomes a consumer product. And I don't think that's really appropriate to the creative arts, really.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Art, Thinking, People

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social sector, that is, the nongovernmental, nonprofit organization, can create what we now need, communities for citizens... What the dawning 21st century needs above all is equally explosive growth of the nonprofit social sector in building communities in the newly dominant social environment, the city.

  Peter Drucker

  Cities, Organization, Community

  "Civilizing the City". Leader to Leader, No. 7, 1998.

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• The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it - if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate - for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.

  Learned Hand

  Character, Past, Judging

  The New York Times, October 06, 1963.

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• The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Men, Landscape, Scene

  "The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson" by Daniel J. Boorstin, University of Chicago Press, (p. 6), 1993.

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• Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Humor, Genius, Elements

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.

  Jason Jones

  Grandfather, Church, Influence

  "Jason Jones launches Movie to Movement to move Hollywood toward positive storytelling". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. October 2011.

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• Bonobos really violate a rule of nature where usually if you're bigger, you're going to be dominant. But here, females are actually smaller. But they're still not dominated by males because they work together.

  Claudine Andre

  Working Together, Males, Female

  "Bonobos". "60 Minutes" with Anderson Cooper, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2016.

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• We are contaminated with the idea of "winning" and defeating others. Indoctrinated by parents, schools, and our ubiquitous media, hammered with a lie: The only way to be truly triumphant is if we are dominant before supposed "competitors" rather than beautiful before ourselves.

  Daniel Gillies

  Beautiful, Lying, School

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• I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Personality, Trump

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be the dominant player .

  David Brooks

  Player, Done, Trump

  "Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful, Clinton's failure to emotionally connect". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 29, 2016.

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• These new investments in cyber security and the modernization of our military will spur substantial new job creation in the private sector and help create the jobs and technologies of tomorrow. It's what we have to do. America must be the world's dominant technological powerhouse of the twenty-first century, and young Americans - including in our inner cities - should get these new jobs!

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Military, Technology

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.

  Kevin Rudd

  Government, Games, Decision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

  Anne Roiphe

  Hair, Class, America

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is actually not. Western culture, now globally dominant, has systematically trained us to think and act as though we are separate individuals, often in competition with each other for scarce resources of one sort or another, primarily money, which has be-come the perceived means to all we want and need in life.

  Elisabet Sahtouris

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Two, India And Pakistan, Lineage

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Culture, May, Might

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.

  Juan Enriquez

  Technology, India, Revolution

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a variety of reasons, but fundamentally comes out of how that particular experience connects with your effective systems of response.

  Antonio Damasio

  Biographies, Reason, Enormous

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, War, Hands

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• What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Beach, Math, Skulls

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• I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. III), 1916.

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• The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Photography, Art, Eye

  "Seeing and Reading" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. July 26, 2004.

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• Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

  Chris Hardwick

  Happiness, Moments, Stealing

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.96, Penguin

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