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• If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

  Fred Thompson

  Design, Growth, Population

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• You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.

  J. K. Rowling

  Education, Literacy, Failing

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• Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...?
  With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Artist, Important

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• I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

  Linda Dillow

  Focus, Design, Want

  Linda Dillow (2011). “What's It Like to Be Married to Me?: And Other Dangerous Questions”, p.29, David C Cook

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• Not to decide is to decide. Letting something go until it 'decides itself' is Life by Default. You don't want to live that way. So choose. Choose right now. Stop worrying about what you can 'lose' or how you can 'win' and just follow your joy. Where does your joy say you should go?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Winning, Worry, Joy

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Apr 08, 2015

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• I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn’t think that. What we did learn is this - it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Issues, Done

  "In debt deal, the triumph of the old Washington" by David A. Fahrenthold, Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane, www.washingtonpost.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.

  Katha Pollitt

  Baby, Motherhood, Thinking

  Katha Pollitt (2014). “Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights”, p.10, Picador

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• The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Mercy, Eternity

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• In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.

  Matthew Continetti

  Government, People, Giving

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• The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from the trivial many, eliminates the non-essentials, and then removes obstacles so the essential things have clear, smooth passage. In other words, Essentialism is a disciplined, systematic approach for determining where our highest point of contribution lies, then making execution of those things almost effortless.

  Greg McKeown

  Lying, Mean, Choices

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 17, 2014.

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• It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.

  Eric Bolling

  People, Feelings, President

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• They ask me what the biggest thing I have going on right now is, and I usually say, "I think this interview?" And then they don't get that it's a joke. So then I say, Yogi Bear 3D. That's my default.

  T. J. Miller

  Thinking, Yogi Bear, Interviews

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I mean, we've always had gold bugs, but now we sort of realize that Treasure Bills might be in the same category. And we have derivatives like credit default swaps which are in this category, and we have derivatives like volatilities that are actually an asset class that we can invest in which are now - would out perform if we have another financial crisis.

  Robert F. Engle

  Mean, Class, Gold

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Credit default swap gives you something to do. You can buy some credit default swaps from them to protect yourself against the bankruptcy of people who owe you money.

  Robert F. Engle

  People, Giving, Credit

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people that you - companies that you deal with.

  Robert F. Engle

  People, Buying, Attention

  Source: bigthink.com

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• So what is the role that credit default swaps can play in an economy? Well my feeling is that if these things actually will now be traded on either exchanges or some kind of central clearing, they are going to be a very good measure of the credit worthiness of different companies.

  Robert F. Engle

  Play, Feelings, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Philosophy, Long, Nihilism

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The problem to me with environmentalism is the idea that we're all gonna die and we need to save ourselves. I don't think it's necessarily the right way to go about it, because I think we need to really just improve our every moment and improve our quality of life. And that will, sort of by default, save us.

  Adrian Grenier

  Thinking, Ideas, Quality

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• We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Simple, Yield

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• In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. The decision-making systems here are meant to deal with the reality that decisions about innovative ideas will rely on patterns and intuitions. The best venture capital organizations deal with this challenge by staging investment, actively participating in startups they fund, tying decisions to learning as opposed to artificial dates on the calendar, and assembling a diverse team of decision-makers.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Team, Reality, Organization

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Asking, Answers, Faces

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The third element of success is your state: You must replace a default state of pessimism or anger with one of determination, of will, of generosity, of curiosity, of gratitude. The more we can put ourselves in such beautiful states rather than suffering states, the more they become habits of being and we end up making better decisions.

  Tony Robbins

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Determination

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My purpose is to help people understand that leadership skills are useful and relevant for pursuing meaningful aspirations in all aspects of life, and that this is a choice, a decision, not a default.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Meaningful, Skills, People

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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• Women are feminist by default.

  Caitlin Moran

  Feminist

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.

  George Saunders

  Trying, Be Kind, Truthful

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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