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• We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Reality, Effort, Use

  "The Buddha’s Five Protections - Part 2" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2010.

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• Where taxes are concerned, there are two clear-cut points of view. There are those who think they're too high and those who think they should be even higher because, after all, politicians spend our money far more wisely than we do. The obvious solution I'd propose is that the people in the first group would pay less and those in the second group would pay more. Lots more.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Thinking, Two, Views

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• Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.

  Vidya Balan

  Coffee, Black, Trying

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• You can behead people, you can crucify them, you can cut their hearts out and eat them on YouTube...but, don't screw with the place where God hid America's oil.

  Bill Maher

  Heart, Oil, America

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• Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

  Wim Wenders

  Worry, Finals

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• Anyone who tells you that American seniors are not either going to have their services cut or we're going to have to pay more is...lying about it.

  Katty Kay

  Senior, Lying, Pay

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• This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, America, Age

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• Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

  Ben Shapiro

  America, Enemy, Defense

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• The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

  John Mortimer

  Book, Squad, Ties

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• If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Half, Painting, Ifs

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• What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of faith-based intelligence, with a faith-based plan for Iraqi reconstruction, supported by faith-based tax cuts to generate faith-based revenues.

  Thomas Friedman

  War, Team, Iraq

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• Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

  Sidney Lumet

  Rooms, Destruction, Length

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• Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, People, Good Things

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• At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Rivers, Tree, Purpose

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• No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense.

  Ayn Rand

  Simple, Men, Self

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• Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Taken, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• Anytime I've had a big thing that's ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And when you say justice, it doesn't have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly.

  Kanye West

  Dream, War, Fighting

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• It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord's voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.

  David S. Baxter

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving Up

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• The seams, the laminae between the various worlds the past present and future as well as the living and the nonliving may not be as distinct and clear-cut as we have been taught or as our somewhat arbitrary clocks and calendars have led us to believe.

  Rick Bass

  Believe, Past, Arbitrary

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• We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.

  Max Black

  Children, Fire, Knives

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• The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

  Kenneth Burke

  Fall, Men, Numbers

  Kenneth Burke (1984). “Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do you think the federal government spends too much money and they should spend less, they say yeah, absolutely. Then you name specific things, like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that. How 'bout NIH, medical research funding? Nah, you really shouldn't cut that. And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against is arithmetic.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Government, Names

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• We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.

  Murray Kempton

  Dog, New York, Balls

  Murray Kempton (1994). “Rebellions, perversities, and main events”, Crown

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• Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to change a deeply ingrained pattern, you have to build a sturdy dam, dig another canal and reroute the river in the new direction. That effort is rarely successful over the long haul.

  James Dobson

  Running, Successful, Order

  James C. Dobson (1995). “Life on the Edge”, W Publishing Group

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• Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.

  Bernie Sanders

  Benefits, Social, Security

  Bernie Sanders (2016). “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in”, p.106, Profile Books

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