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• Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.333

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• Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.

  Kanye West

  Class, Race, People

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• We only live once, and how would you want to be remembered? I have kids. I have, due to my job, a probably higher responsibility to do good things in my life. But also, since I was a kid, I love doing things out of context, helping friends, being different, being a special kind of man is important for me.

  Gilles Marini

  Jobs, Kids, Responsibility

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• In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Air, Space, Judging

  "A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann". Book by Matthias Beier, 2004.

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• We do not live in a world that mainly suffers bad policies due to lack of ideas about better ones, or lack of elegant explanations supporting good policies, but one that suffers bad policies due to system and meta-system level incentives.

  Patri Friedman

  Ideas, Suffering, Incentives

  "Public Choice Ignorance Everywhere". athousandnations.com. November 9, 2010.

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• I'm a great swimmer, probably due to the size of my feet.

  Cat Deeley

  Feet, Size, Swimmer

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• The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

  Willard Scott

  Clouds, Years, Vision

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• A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.

  Chanakya

  Political, Prosperity, Welfare

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• Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Names, Evil

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• A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Fame, Admirer

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• Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Photograph, Cartier, Burned

  "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.

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• The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.

  David Levithan

  Real, Character, Humanity

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• In the Year 2000 due to the declining number of champions in the world, Wheaties will change its slogan to 'Breakfast of Sexual Deviants.

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, Numbers, Champion

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• That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.

  John Legend

  Song, Circumstances, Evergreens

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• our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

  Roger Penrose

  Reality, Relation, Shakes

  Roger Penrose (1999). “The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics”, p.480, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Order, Advice, Caviar

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• How can you have any regret when everything worked out fine? But why I think it worked out fine is due to the lessons I learned along the way. And one of those involves listening to experts.

  Tony Robbins

  Regret, Thinking, Listening

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

  Horace Greeley

  Memories, Practice, Principles

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• Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Rights, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.118

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• Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Greek, Facts, Modern

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.975, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Creativity, Men

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• The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Irrelevance, Criticism, Faults

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lightsare being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I'll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.

  Robert Benchley

  Party, Missing, Curiosity

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• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Numbers, Understanding

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• One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.

  James Gleick

  Change, Time, Understanding

  "5 Big Moments in the History of Knowledge Transfer" by Jason Gots, bigthink.com.

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