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• Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. - They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Past, Men

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.422, Best Books on

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• I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.

  William J. Clinton

  Giving Up, Thinking, Political

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• Every once in a while, a great nation has to deal with a great issue. Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Men, Issues

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• It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse to deal with him (Bush), the resources at his disposal will be given to others.

  Charles E. Blake

  Mistake, People, Scary

  "Some Black Pastors See New Aid Under Bush" by John Leland, www.nytimes.com. February 2, 2001.

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• [Polythene Pam] was me, remembering a little event with a woman in Jersey, and a man who was England's answer to Allen Ginsberg, who gave us our first exposure - this is so long - you can't deal with all this. You see, everything triggers amazing memories. I met him when we were on tour and he took me back to his apartment and I had a girl and he had one he wanted me to meet. He said she dressed up in polythene, which she did. She didn't wear jackboots and kilts, I just sort of elaborated. Perverted sex in a polythene bag. Just looking for something to write about.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Sex, Memories

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• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Reality, Two

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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• ...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.

  Riane Eisler

  Women, Keys, People

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• The key elements in the art of working together are how to deal with change, how to deal with conflict, and how to reach our potential...the needs of the team are best met when we meet the needs of individual persons.

  Max De Pree

  Teamwork, Art, Keys

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• Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

  Chris Bliss

  God, Race, Soul

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• It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.

  Alpana Singh

  Wine, Ice, Missing

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• Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Ideas, Saint

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts.

  Rajiv Mehrotra

  Spiritual, Teacher, Past

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• Ocean energy can contribute a great deal toward the protection or our atmosphere - without damaging marine ecosystems that are equally vital to the planet's future.

  Fred Krupp

  Ocean, Marine, Sea

  Miriam Horn, Fred Krupp (2009). “Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Daughter, Mother, School

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• As for inflicting our sorrow on other people, one does not want to go around blathering and crying all the time. But perhaps it is our gift to others to trust them enough to share our feelings with them. It may help them deal with some of their own.

  Martha Whitmore Hickman

  Healing, People, Feelings

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• Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her desires, as well as her vulnerabilities, her secrets, and especially her contradictions. This development needs to be forged in scenes, the better to employ your intuition rather than your intellect.

  David Corbett

  Character, Frustration, Focus

  "The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV". Book by David Corbett, January 29, 2013.

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• When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills would produce more jobs. There's a great deal of evidence that they produce more competition for the jobs that exist, and in turn, drive down the cost of labour. Nothing pleases a corporation more than having five people compete for the same job. Competitiveness means good times for machines, not workers, because our tax systems privilege machines over workers.A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.

  Eric Reguly

  Jobs, Mean, Hard Work

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• The military profession, especially in the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well under stress. Professional officers are trained to think in terms of emergent threats, and this [climate change] is as big a threat as you are going to find. Never mind what the pundits are telling the public about the perils of climate change; what are the military strategists telling their governments? That will tell us a great deal about the probable shape of the future, although it may not tell us anything that we want to hear.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Country, Stress, Military

  "Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats". Book by Gwynne Dyer, 2008.

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• That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive.

  Manohla Dargis

  Stories, Share, Found

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• But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.

  Manuel De Landa

  Information Processing, Decision, Events

  Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)

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• We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with their challenges.

  Chloe Hooper

  Giving, Challenges, Use

  Chloe Hooper (2009). “Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

  Ron Carlson

  Heart, Tolerance, Stories

  Ron Carlson (2007). “Ron Carlson Writes a Story”, Graywolf Press

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• People have a range of capacities to deal with overwhelming experience. Some people, some kids particularly, are able to disappear into a fantasy world, to dissociate, to pretend like it isnt happening, and are able to go on with their lives. And sometimes it comes back to haunt them.

  Bessel van der Kolk

  Kids, People, Goes On

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• The best way to deal in a transparent world is just be transparent. Let your life be authentic and let people look in. Because if they want to find out, they're gonna find out. And so to me it's given me a greater sense of accountability as a CEO. It's given me a greater opportunity to lead.

  Michael Hyatt

  Character, Opportunity, People

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• We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement.

  Calvin Miller

  Christmas, Simple, Example

  Calvin Miller (2006). “The Christ of Christmas”, p.53, B&H Publishing Group

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