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• So remember, if you're feeling bitter - or sorry for yourself about what you've done, and how much good you've accomplished - or if you find yourself more than anyone else talking about the good you've done, you're doing it for the wrong reasons, because it should be the default.

  Ysabella Brave

  Sorry, Talking, Feelings

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Doing Good - for the right reasons!", www.youtube.com. March 13, 2008.

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• By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

  Robert Kuttner

  Home, Nursing, Class

  "The Economic Illusion". Book by Robert Kuttner, 1984.

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• The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. The men who are not interested in philosophy absorb its principles from the cultural atmosphere around them-from schools, colleges, books, magazines, newspapers, movies, television, etc. Who sets the tone of a culture? A small handful of men: the philosophers. Others follow their lead, either by conviction or by default.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Book, School

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.367, Penguin

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• There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

  Alexei Sayle

  Hate, Dark, Views

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• Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

  Ayn Rand

  Winning, Civilization, Doe

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.73, Penguin

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• Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

  Julia Glass

  People, Guessing, Sometimes

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• I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

  Catherine Tate

  Negative, Relief, Form

  "The Guardian profile: Catherine Tate" by wen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2005.

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• What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.

  Tony Judt

  Running, Long, Optimism

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• It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres to the rule of law, not just domestically, but internationally. There are no bystanders. No one is entitled to an 'apolitical' exemption from such obligation. Where default occurs, either by citizens endorsement of official criminality or by the failure of citizens to effectively oppose it, liability is incurred by all

  Ward Churchill

  Mean, Responsibility, Bystanders

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• By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role.

  Bob Harper

  Issues, Parent, Needs

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

  Paul Krugman

  Stars, Good Luck, Astrology

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• The Illuminati bankers rule the world through debt, which is money they create out of nothing. They need world government to ensure no country defaults or tries to overthrow them. As long as private bankers, instead of governments, create money the human race is doomed. These bankers and their allies have bought everything and everyone.

  Henry Makow

  Country, World Government, Race

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• We believe that 95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself as you go throughout your day. The sad fact is that if you do not deliberately and consciously talk to yourself in a positive and constructive way, you will, by default, think about things that will make you unhappy or cause you worry and anxiety. Your mind is like a garden. If you do not deliberately plant flowers and tend carefully, weeds will grow without any encouragement at all.

  Brian Tracy

  Weed, Encouragement, Believe

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 27, 2014

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• Fundraisers treat men completely differently than women. As a matter of fact, many of them have the default on their direct mail set up to read "Mister," and it really rankles a lot of women.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Men, Mail, Matter

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• I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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