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• Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mystery, Organized, Exceed

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• The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Answers, May, Way

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• This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.

  Phyllis Diller

  Men, Balls, Bowling

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• You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble.

  Peter Stone

  Laughing, Interesting, Trouble

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• For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Summer, Teacher, Teaching

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• No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Men, Deceived, Self Assessment

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• I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Believe, Tools

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• At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Growing, Levels

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• Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

  Bill Ackman

  Needs, Errands, Fool

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• Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

  John W. Campbell

  Accepting, Initials, Opposition

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• I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Editors, Psychology

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

  John Olver

  War, Iraq, America

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• Boris Nemtsov and I began to argue after Putin's return to the presidency in 2012. In my opinion, there was no longer a realistic chance to achieve regime change through peaceful political means, or real elections. Boris, on the other hand, never lost this hope. He felt that my assessment was premature and said: "You have to live a long time to see changes in Russia." He was deprived of that opportunity.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Quality, Commercialism

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is not for us to give an assessment to what happened, but in our opinion the reputation of British science, the reputation of the British government, and the reputation of the title 'Sir' has sustained heavy damage.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Government, Giving, Titles

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• I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Skins, Remember, Enough

  "‘The Man in the High Castle’ producer Frank Spotnitz on his Amazon pilot". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 2, 2015.

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• We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e. that it is normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be. Our viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be reconsidered and more wisely adjusted.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Baby, Sex, Humanity

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• Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

  Samantha Power

  Summer, War, Israel

  Interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March 14, 2007.

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• When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with their assessments. Yet at the same time I come away encouraged by spiritual truths found in their traditions, thrilled by new insights into my own faith, and more passionate than ever about being a disciple of Christ.

  Leonard Sweet

  Spiritual, Religious, People

  Leonard Sweet (2010). “Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There”, p.28, David C Cook

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• I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?

  Adam Phillips

  Problem, Being True, True To Myself

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• External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Problem, Erase, Right Now

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.110, Modern Library

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• It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.

  Romola Garai

  Character, Negative, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• ...it is pretentious for photographers to believe that their pictures alone change things. If they did, we wouldn't be besieged by war, by incidents of genocide, by hunger. A more realistic assessment of photography's value is to point out that it is illustrative of what's going on, that it provides a record of history, that photographs can prompt dialogue.

  Eugene Richards

  Photography, War, Believe

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• Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

  Mark Cuban

  Ideas, Creating, Challenges

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• In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past 10 years where these officers were involved. This is a shameful incident that the public deserves to have addressed in a meaningful and expeditious manner.

  George Gascon

  Meaningful, Past, Order

  "San Francisco prosecutor to probe old cases over racist texts by police". www.reuters.com. March 17, 2015.

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