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• That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.

  Saadi

  People, Pearls, Knaves

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• While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Virginia, Order

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• Anyone can cut an apple open and count the number of seeds. But, who can look at a single seed and count the trees and apples?

  Dottie Walters

  Apples, Numbers, Tree

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• Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Feet, Censorship, Internet

  Letter to N. G. Dufief, 19 Apr. 1814

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• Work hard. There is no short cut.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Hard Work, Hard, Short Cuts

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• Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate.

  Denton Cooley

  Practice, Trying, Meat

  "Denton A. Cooley, M.D. on Preparation". The Academy of Achievement Intreview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Knives, Two

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami. Chapter Five, "Oshima", 2002.

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• Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.

  Michael Jai White

  Drama, Thinking, Space

  "Black Dynamite's Michael Jai White and Scott Sanders: The Movieline Interview". Interview with S.T. Vanairsdale, movieline.com. October 14, 2009.

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• Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Fire, Ideas, Toys

  "Athens demands cash reserves from public sector funds" by Katie Allen, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2015.

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• That Obama I would like to cut his nuts off.

  Jesse Jackson

  Nuts

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• Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

  Donald Miller

  Ambition, Stories, Stuff

  Twitter post from Jun 17, 2015

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• What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Faults

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• The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.

  David Cameron

  Jobs, Party, Health

  "Cameron challenged on Labour claim". www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. March 30, 2015.

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• Yoga is anything which reveals or reflects the wholeness that we truly are, and the world is anything that makes us feel that we are fragmented, dissected, cut into pieces and out of tune with ourselves.

  Krishnananda Saraswati

  Yoga, Tunes, Pieces

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• The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

  Dorothea Dix

  Design, Society, Tapestry

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• Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Kings, Young

  Graeme Murray, Jean Michel Basquiat, Fruit Market Gallery (1984). “Poiesis: aspects of contemporary poetic activity”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

  David Korten

  Innovation, Environmental, May

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• Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree to build a house, or to make a fire to keep the family warm. But we should not cut down the tree just to cut down the tree. We may, if necessary, bark the cork tree in order to have the use of the bark. But what we should not do is to bark the tree simply for the sake of doing so, and let it dry and stand there a dead skeleton in the wind. To do so is not to treat the tree with integrity.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Integrity, Order

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• European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Museums, Government, Pressure

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• For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits and ensure healthier children, families and communities.

  Seth Berkley

  Children, Vaccines, Numbers

  "Vaccines: The Biggest Bang for the Buck in Global Health" by Seth Berkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

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• A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

  Michael Huffington

  War, Order, Disease

  "Seeking Leadership for Iraq" by Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2007.

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• You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Hate, Pie, Worry

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• I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Directors, Finals, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, "You got to lose 40 minutes," they are always saying, "You've got to gain five minutes."

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Thinking, Directors, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.

  Steven Zaillian

  Writing, Character, Numbers

  Source: collider.com

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