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• I still think about the time when I was fighting for my first real big fight against [Marco Antonio] Barrera back in 2002. I know he can come in thinking that he has nothing to lose, and that's why I have to be aware of that.Always be prepared.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. November 13, 2009.

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• ..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Mean, Ideas, Bullshit

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• We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cost, Half, Pay

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• We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Battle, Remember, Lost

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Long, Silence, Speech

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• The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more important than helping young people really be prepared to deal with the tests of life.

  Linda Lantieri

  Education, Mean, People

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• Even when couples share more equitably in the work at home, women do two-thirds of the daily jobs at home, like cooking and cleaning up--jobs that fix them into a rigid routine. Most women cook dinner and most men change the oil in the family car. But dinner needs to be prepared every evening around six o'clock, whereas the car oil needs to be changed every six months, any day around that time, any time that day.... Men thus have more control over when they make their contributions than women do.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Jobs, Couple, Women

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• To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

  Alice Waters

  Beautiful, Way, Ingredients

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• The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you must be willing to go all the way for your art. If it is a question between choosing between your life and a work of art -- any work of art -- your decision is made for you.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Art, Sacrifice, Decision

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• The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sweet, Home, Son

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1945, Library of America

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• If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

  Meg Cabot

  Letting Go, Writing, Needs

  "Exclusive Meg Cabot Interview!". Interview with Rachel Lutz, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Want, Compromise

  Interview with Scott Stearns, www.voanews.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Usual, World

  Interview with Tomilson Hill, www.cfr.org.

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• I believe the chance of any event causing Berkshire to experience financial problems is essentially zero. We will always be prepared for the thousand-year flood; in fact, if it occurswe will be selling life jackets to the unprepared.

  Warren Buffett

  Zero, Believe, Years

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• Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Prepared, Persons, Conditions

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies

  Edmund Randolph

  Freedom, Military, Responsibility

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• A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Fate

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

  Michael Grade

  Risk, Innovation, Stale

  "Reflections on Success". Book by Martyn Lewis, 1997.

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• One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Book, Long, Library

  "Quantitative measurement and dynamic library service" by Ching-chih Chen, (p. 52), 1980.

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• Parents should teach their children to pray. The child learns both from what the parents do and what they say. The child who sees a mother or a father pass through the trials of life with fervent prayer to God and then hears a sincere testimony that God answered in kindness will remember what he or she saw and heard. When trials come, that individual will be prepared.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Mother, Kindness, Prayer

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• A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Peace, War

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• Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.

  David Cannadine

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

  Tobsha Learner

  Writing, New Relationship, Emotional

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to fully know and be fully known by another-we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.

  Arianna Huffington

  Meaningful, Dark, Intimate Relationships

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• Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is. I still follow that advice and have already tried to pass it on to my children. They, of course, ignored me.

  Allen Covert

  Children, Hard Work, Pride

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