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• Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Sacrifice, Way Forward, People

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• there is an imbalance of power. It is an imbalance that is easy to exploit, but it is not a wise course. Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side." - jace

  Cassandra Clare

  Wise, Hate, Imbalance

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• Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Attitude, Real, Sacrifice

  "Apocalypse, and How: Viggo Mortensen’s Road Winds On". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. November 25, 2009.

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• It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of him or herself as a bad person. To treat badly another person whom we consider a reasonable human being creates a tension between act and attitude that demands resolution. We cannot erase what we have done, and to alter our future behavior may not be in our interest. To change our attitude is easier.

  James W. Loewen

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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• With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

  Laura Linney

  Pain, Character, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Thinking, Wish, Division

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• The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

  Kate Millett

  Happiness, True Love, Mean

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.37, Columbia University Press

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• And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

  Alfred Molina

  Reading, Successful, Artist

  Interview With Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

  Gary Oldman

  Romantic, People, Sides

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• Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Running, Climate, Treasure

  "Vivienne Westwood's 10 Steps to Climate Revolution". www.permaculture.co.uk. September 12, 2012.

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• Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

  Frank Wedekind

  Art, Knowing, Creative

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• The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

  Mo Udall

  Nature, Fighting, Survival

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• We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Slave Labor, Land, Raw Materials

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• I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

  Laura Linney

  Our Relationship

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• A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us... What I am saying is that if we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of earth, but also the earth's ability to produce.

  Wendell Berry

  Home, Garden, Practice

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• If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Degrees, Doe

  Peter Singer (2015). “Animal Liberation”, p.31, Random House

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• The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the human absurdities of sacrifice and compassion, they will remember us.

  John Green

  Sacrifice, Compassion, Voice

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.202, Penguin

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• Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man’s (or woman’s) thoughts and attitudes.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Pain, Attitude, Men

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.138, Moody Publishers

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• If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Limits, Unfair

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.266, Random House

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• I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Issues, Political

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

  Laura Linney

  Pain, Thinking, Should

  "Laura Linney Explores the Art, Artifice of Acting". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 28, 2007.

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• I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Intelligent, Men, Blood

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• I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Eye, Thinking, Years

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• Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else though. I'm going to give it hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and it things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Giving, Want

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 15, 2016

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• Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, What Matters, Self

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.195, Grove Press

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