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• In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Space, Google, Style

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• You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

  Tony Kushner

  Kindness, Heart, Thinking

  "Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika". Book by Tony Kushner, January 18, 2017.

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• Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Irritation, Long

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• Meow” means “woof” in cat.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Dog, Mean

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.197, Hachette UK

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• Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Lying

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• Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truely loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. ...Conversely, it is not only possible but necessary for a loving person to avoid acting on feelings of love.

  M. Scott Peck

  Commitment, Love Is, Emotional

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

  Che Guevara

  Life, Thinking, Feelings

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.225, Ocean Press

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• A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

  John H. McWhorter

  Challenges, Excuse, Persons

  John H. McWhorter (2000). “Losing the Race: Self-sabotage in Black America”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

  Pat Conroy

  Hero, Character, Needs

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.

  Hermann Hesse

  Broken, Childhood, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Beneath the Wheel: A Novel”, p.132, Macmillan

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• The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Men, Generosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Feelings, Natural

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Prose of Oscar Wilde”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Simple, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (2002). “Democracy”

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• Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Support, Heroism

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• Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

  Donna Tartt

  Contrary

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.37, Vintage

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• When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

  Bill Bryson

  Notebook, Ideas, Records

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• A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

  Mitch Albom

  Book, Comfort, Reader

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• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

  Audre Lorde

  Knowledge, Emotional, Feelings

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind. -Lindo

  Amy Tan

  Beautiful, Strong, Wind

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.58, Penguin

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• And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, Issues, Our World

  "The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, February 1, 2006.

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• About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Tea Leaves, Three, Pieces

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• What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Taken, Firsts, Steps

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2010: Odyssey Two”, p.224, RosettaBooks

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• We have made men proud of most vices, but not of cowardice. Whenever we have almost succeeded in doing so, God permits a war or an earthquake or some other calamity, and at once courage becomes so obviously lovely and important even in human eyes that all our work is undone, and there is still at least one vice of which they feel genuine shame. The danger of inducing cowardice in our patients, therefore, is lest we produce real self-knowledge and self-loathing, with consequent repentance and humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Humility

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• Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Mistake, Men, Matter

  Sharon Kay Penman (2008). “The Sunne In Splendour: A Novel of Richard III”, p.276, Macmillan

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• An ad that pretends to be art is - at absolute best - like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Art, Confused

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". Essay by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1997.

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