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• We've concocted a system where local trips take an auto. That's our biggest tragedy. Streetcars, such as those used in Portland's Pearl District, and elevated people movers, like those in downtown Miami, are moving people from rail stations to their final destinations. But a new concept, PRT, may help revolutionize urban transportation, providing a cost-effective way to get people from train stations to where they need to go.

  Peter Calthorpe

  Moving, People, Tragedy

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• The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Healing, Air, Feet

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press

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• To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perseverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important

  Rafe Esquith

  Perseverance, Teacher, Hard Work

  Rafe Esquith (2008). “There Are No Shortcuts”, p.156, Anchor

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• I assure you that it is our desire and intention to keep the doors of consultation always and fully open. There must never be a final word between friends.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Doors, Presidential, Desire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.533, Best Books on

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• But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dark, Men, Presidential

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Order, Justice, Victory

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Today's new climate policy is like delivering the final divorce papers to the public and the world, ... And it is divorced from the reality of global warming.

  Jim Jeffords

  Divorce, Reality, Climate

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• My partner sometimes liked to go into the studio and improvise voice things just for fun. When I returned from England I transcribed one of her melodies, and had some of the hospice participants sing it, because they said they liked to sing. Their singing is very raw, but I'm going to use it for the final work.

  Meredith Monk

  Fun, Voice, Singing

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• The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.

  Jonathan Ive

  Thinking, Design Process, Suffering

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• The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Powerful, Reality, Yield

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• Our foundation is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The authority of the holy priesthood is here, restored under the hands of those who received it directly from our Lord. The curtains have been parted, and the God of heaven and His Beloved Son have spoken to the boy prophet Joseph in opening this last and final dispensation. Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Son, Boys

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• None the less, perhaps, the highest pleasure in art is identical with the highest pleasure inscientific theory. The emotion which accompanies the clear recognition of unity in a complex seems to be so similar in art and in science that it is difficult not to suppose that they are psychologically the same. It is, as it were, the final stage of both processes.

  Roger Fry

  Art, Design, Unity

  "Vision and Design".

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• The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.

  Amira Hass

  People, Historical, Forget

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• There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever remain sacred from its intrusions, at least in the surgeon's hands. That we have already, if not quite, reached these final limits, there can be little question. The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will be forever shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

  John Eric Erichsen

  Wise, Science, Errors

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• The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Wisdom, Loss

  Sophocles (1958). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• [H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?

  Nick Hornby

  Soccer, Female, Campaigns

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• Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. Fourteen years ago, independently, without any pressure from outside, it made that decision in the interests of itself and interests of its people - of its citizens. This is our final choice, and we have no way back. There can be no return to what we used to have before.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Years, People

  "President and President Putin Discuss Strong U.S.-Russian Partnership". Statement in press release, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. February 24, 2005.

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• We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is what moves the stars through the heavens and the earth through its seasons. The final norm of judgment concerning the success or failure of our technologies is the extent to which they enable us to participate more fully in this grand festival.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Stars, Moving

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• Enthusiasm is the force that leads us to the final victory.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Victory

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• By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Lasts, Becoming, Last Words

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• I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Self, Style

  Jorge Luis Borges (2001). “A Universal History of Iniquity”, Penguin Books

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• The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Journey, Tests

  Nelson Mandela, Mandla Langa (2017). “Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

  Robert Cialdini

  Yield, Opponents, Enough

  Robert B. Cialdini (1985). “Influence: Science and Practice”, Scott Foresman

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• Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

  Eavan Boland

  Sleep, World

  Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland (1995). “Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland”

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• At the final day the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak. When we reach out to assist the least of Heavenly Father’s children, we do it unto Him. That is the essence of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Jesus, Children, Father

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