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• Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

  Roland Barthes

  Shining, Literature, Moments

  Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”

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• It seems that every life form on this planet strives toward its maximum potential... except human beings. A tree does not grow to half its potential size and then say, "l guess that will do." A tree will drive its roots as deep as possible. It will soak up as much nourishment as it can, stretch as high and as wide as nature will allow, and then look down as if to remind us of how much each of us could become if we would only do all that we can.

  Jim Rohn

  Roots, Tree, Doe

  "Five Major Pieces To the Life Puzzle". Book by Jim Rohn, February 1991.

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• I was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject to general maximum price regulation wanted an exception and went to Congress to persuade a Congressman, or a group of people on the Hill, that I was being a menace to their industry.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, People, World

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice... Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Wisdom, Justice

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• My body and its condition are a barometer that is always trying to tell me which direction to go for my maximum creativity, health and fulfillment. And, because I'm human, I get off track now and again but I can always get back on.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Creativity, Health

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• Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Responsibility, Climate, Pay

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• I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Liberty, Individual, Esteem

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• The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

  Immanuel Kant

  Government, People, Liberty

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• Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Deception, Trying

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Golf, Men, Perfect

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• Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Pain, Motivation

  Bill Russell, Taylor Branch (1980). “Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man”

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• One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.

  Joe Hyams

  Basketball, Powerful, Exercise

  Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.107, Bantam

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• One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.

  Seymour Cray

  Hard Work, Science, Thinking

  Interview with David K. Allison for the Smithsonian Institution, May 9, 1995.

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• ...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This balance, in the case of the United States would seem to me to have been surpassed when the American population reached, at a very maximum, two hundred million people, and perhaps a good deal less.

  George F. Kennan

  Men, Two, People

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• If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don't you think there's a good chance that your boss's boss knows what's going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time.

  Suze Orman

  Success, Business, Hard Work

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• We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and communism. Both the name of our Party and our Marxist world outlook unequivocally point to this supreme ideal of the future, a future of incomparable brightness and splendor.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Views, Names

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• I just stay focused, and I always think about gymnastics. I am just doing what I always do... working really hard and pushing myself to the maximum and keeping myself motivated.

  Aly Raisman

  Athlete, Gymnastics, Thinking

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• My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Friendship, Mom

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• In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.

  Chauncey Wright

  Men, Order, Intelligence

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• If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy.
  But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Pain, Overcoming

  "Jimmy Carter on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence." To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Morning, Rap, Moving

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• Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Home, Way

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.31, Souvenir Press

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• From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.

  Justina Chen

  Heart, Ideas, Leaving

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• To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

  Nido R Qubein

  Mean, Desire, Balance

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• When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Confidence, Systematic

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