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• Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.

  Robert Greene

  Character, Identity, Roles

  "The 48 Laws of Power". Book by Robert Greene, 1998.

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• Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.

  Gary Hamel

  Names, Entrepreneur, Bullets

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• Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profounder message: the defining of a new and unique source of truth, and the demand for a thorough revision of ethical premises, for a complete break with the animist tradition, the definitive abandonment of the 'old covenant', the necessity of forging a new one. Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the riches they owe to science, our societies are still trying to live by and to teach systems of values already blasted at the root by science itself.

  Jacques Monod

  Unique, Roots, Trying

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• The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.

  John Welwood

  Beautiful, Real, Fighting

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Issues, Political Will, Understanding

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• World peace is not something that can be realized simply by politicians signing treaties, or by business leaders creating economic cooperation. True and lasting peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Creating, People, Leader

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• This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

  Bill Bruford

  Style, Weakness, Helpful

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• Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.

  Jack White

  Art, Opportunity, Simple

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• It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered society founded on mutual esteem. But the injury done my country, and the chains of slavery forging for all posterity, calls me forth to defend our common rights, and repel the bold invaders of the sons of freedom.

  Nathanael Greene

  Country, Son, Rights

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• You have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter. If you do it for other causes, other reasons, it doesn't hold you for a long time. There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

  Haile Gerima

  Struggle, Long, Matter

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that the only way to preserve freedom is through judicious controls on the exercise of private power. If we believe in liberty, it must be freedom from both private and public coercion.

  Tim Wu

  Believe, Exercise, Liberty

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.223, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Generations, Unions, My Generation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• One of the most important things I learned is forging a rapport with someone at your insurance company. Know their names. You'll eventually get someone who will tell you, "This is how you do an appeal. This is what you need to say in your letter. " You can also always go to the ER to get whatever you need to tide you over for a few days.

  Jenny Lawson

  Names, Important, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But it is the best thing that we have for bringing the countries of Europe around the same table and for forging compromises so that people here can live in peace, freedom and prosperity. In a world which is growing closer together all the time, we can only survive and influence the rules if we join forces. We will miss the presence of the United Kingdom at this table.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Country, Europe, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'd actually argue forging a company is far more harder than forging a product

  Keith Rabois

  Arguing, Harder, Company

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• The "female culture" has shifted more rapidly than the "male culture"; the image of the go-get 'em woman has yet to be fully matched by the image of the let's take-care-of-the-kids- together man. More important, over the last thirty years, men's underlying feelings about taking responsibility at home have changed much less than women's feelings have changed about forging some kind of identity at work.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Women, Home, Kids

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• I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

  Crispin Glover

  Getting Older, Twenties, Shapes

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• Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.

  James Nasmyth

  Russia, Hammers, England

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.221, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Passion, Men

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• Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.

  Henry Moore

  Clever, Artist, People

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• In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe.

  Julius Streicher

  Russia, Europe, Tools

  Speech in the Bavarian regional parliament on April 25, 1928. "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.

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• There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.

  Agatha Christie

  Light, Color, People

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• There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

  Haile Gerima

  Struggle, Way, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Country, Art

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• Yet spiritual realizations often remain compartmentalized, apart from everyday life, or become used as a rationale for living in an impersonal or soulless way. That is why, if we are to live our realizations and bring them into this world, we also need to work on the vessel of spirit - our embodied humanity. Soulwork is the forging of this vessel... If spiritual work brings freedom, soulwork brings integration. Both are necessary for a complete human life.

  John Welwood

  Spiritual, Soul, Humanity

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