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• We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state of where we are in the city, the role of parents and the reality of small school and combining schools.

  Lisa Randall

  School, Reality, Cities

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• The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

  Mike Lofgren

  Evil, People, Peers

  Mike Lofgren (2012). “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted”, p.120, Penguin

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• The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

  Dick Morris

  Political, Television, Politics

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

  Pete Sampras

  Retirement, Progress, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I were president? First thing I'd do is take care of the schoolteachers. I'm not saying we should start 'em out with six figures, but in some places they've got to be mother, father, brother, sister, and mentor. They're real important people. Let's give 'em a raise - and attract the best people to the job.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Mother, Brother, Jobs

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• In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.

  John Worlidge

  Summer, Hope, Art

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• It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.

  Michael Foley

  Wedding, Law, Analysis

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• It's much easier to be convincing if you care about your topic. Figure out what's important to you about your message and speak from the heart.

  Nicholas Boothman

  Heart, Important, Care

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• It just seemed so odd as people had never commented on my body before. Every woman obsesses over her figure, but I was happy, I felt sexy, I never thought about it. I know this sounds naive, but I honestly never expected this kind of attention.

  Christina Hendricks

  Sexy, People, Sound

  "Mad Men and me: Christina Hendricks interview". Interview With Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Soccer, Sports, Years

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• Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up.

  Cody Lundin

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Survival

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• The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure.

  Joe Teti

  Beach, Survival, Gears

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• One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wall, Learning, Decision

  "The Queen of Daytime TV". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. February 25, 1991.

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• When you look at what Star (casino) has done for Sydney over the last fifteen years.. I don't think it has done a lot. When you look at what Crown (his casino) has done for Melbourne, I think it has done an enormous amount. And there's all sorts of statistics and figures and facts that can back those things up.

  James Packer

  Stars, Thinking, Australia

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• Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life. The calculation of intrinsic value, though, is not so simple. As our definition suggests, intrinsic value is an estimate rather than a precise figure, and it is additionally an estimate that must be changed if interest rates move or forecasts of future cash flows are revised.

  Warren Buffett

  Moving, Taken, Simple

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.220, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems.

  Eric Schmidt

  Mistake, Growth, Size

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• It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

  David Baldacci

  Trying, Labels, World

  David Baldacci (2011). “One Summer”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• Never use tricky or irrelevant headlines… People read too fast to figure out what you are trying to say.

  David Ogilvy

  People, Trying, Use

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• It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.

  Titian

  Beautiful, Color, Drawing

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, p. 32, 2002.

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• I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.

  Ciaran Carson

  Wall, Eye, Church Bells

  Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books

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• Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as ‘their home — their fortress.’ And good for them, I say. Well done!

  Vladimir Putin

  Home, Russia, Defense

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• I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Literary Genre, Speech

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• Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.

  Tom Ford

  Character, Expression, Feel Good

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• You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

  Jack White

  Rocks, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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• It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't drink much, but I was sipping. And it came to me. I wrote [“Moon River”] in half an hour.

  Henry Mancini

  Moon, Night, Rivers

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