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• Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates.

  David Bohm

  Thinking, Trying, Way

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2003). “The Essential David Bohm”, p.319, Psychology Press

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• If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

  Ross Perot

  Business, Levels, Chickens

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• I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We’re all worshiping something.

  Shane Jones

  Believe, Two, World

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• Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

  David Bohm

  Division

  Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.6, Routledge

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• Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Creative, Scary

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• I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

  Kate Atkinson

  Past, Thinking, Interesting

  "Behind the scenes with Kate Atkinson". www.independent.co.uk. August 06, 2000.

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• We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Teamwork, Later In Life, Confusion

  "Merrill's Marauders: The truth about an incredible adventure" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

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• Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

  Henry Miller

  Looks, Kind, Discovering

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• This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.

  Robert Reed

  Careers, Coral Reefs, Lasts

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• Obviously technologies that are sustainable are a logical first step to creating a just society, one that doesn't trample life in all its forms, whether it's other humans or other life forms on the earth, one that acknowledges that we're all sharing the space and that there needs to be room for every living thing somewhere.

  John Lindsay

  Technology, Space, Needs

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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• As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

  Mark Webber

  Opportunity, People, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.

  John Stossel

  Art, Men, Rewards

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• Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.

  Lewis Mumford

  Home, Men, Self

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• Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body. Negative thoughts and stress have been shown to seriously degrade the body and the functioning of the brain, because it's our thoughts and emotions that are continuously reassembling, reorganizing, re-creating our body

  John Hagelin

  Stress, Brain, Negative

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• It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not working and somehow this creates economy activity. You are destroying as much by taking from those who are working and creating.

  Yaron Brook

  People, Giving, Ridiculous

  "The Key to Creating Jobs" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2011.

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• Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

  James Cook

  Jobs, Government, Giving

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• Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments as the decades went by. They produced the wealth and rising income that resulted in the emergence of a phenomenon completely new to human history: a self-supporting and educated middle class that grew more and more as they lower classes bettered their economic well-being.

  Richard Ebeling

  Class, Self, Rising

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• On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

  George Gilder

  Brutality, Wealth, Victim

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.139, Regnery Publishing

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• This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Father, Artist, Past

  Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Good drama is all about creating conflict.

  Paul Blackthorne

  Drama, Conflict, Good Drama

  Source: collider.com

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• You're always in the mode of creating the next season. It's so fast, and in two months, the collection you just did is already old, and it's always next, next, next.

  Jason Wu

  Two, Next, Months

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really do appreciate the awareness and the hype that the fans are creating. I, myself, have become totally addicted to checking out the fan art.

  Harald Zwart

  Art, Hype, Appreciate

  Source: collider.com

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• I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.

  Jason Blum

  Thinking, People, Suspense

  Source: collider.com

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• We have sacrificed and we have endured extreme hardship, but we have maintained the key goal - we have denied the enemy its main objective of creating two political geographies in this country through the all-out war which has been unleashed against us. If we had a first-rate air force, the nature of the conflict would be completely different.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, War, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.

  Seth Klarman

  Dangerous Situations, Government, Class

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