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• Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

  Robert McKee

  Profound, Choices, Audience

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

  John Engler

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

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• There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

  Richard Livingstone

  Education, Growing Up, Creative

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• Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance, adjusted by changes in labor and capital inputs. This is somewhat similar to the definition of normal profits under some versions of the wartime excess -profits tax. Entitlements would be transferable and a competitive market established.

  William Vickrey

  Past, Would Be, Entitlement

  "Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey".

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• Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

  David Douglas

  Successful, Opposites, Data

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• Enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil before the worst amongst you are given authority over you and then when even the best of you make dua against them, their duas will not be accepted.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Evil, Over You, Dua

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• Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food security, no poverty reduction, no environmental sustainability without transforming our agricultural practices. The book ?presents well documented cases of best practices from all over the world. It should be required reading for all concerned with agriculture, the environment, food security or just the future of our children.

  Ismail Serageldin

  Children, Book, Reading

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• More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

  Aaron Huey

  Children, War, Iraq

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• Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

  Viktor Suvorov

  Military, Lying, Army

  Viktor Suvorov (1987). “Spetsnaz: The Story Behind the Soviet SAS”

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• Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Creative, Intellectual, Spirit

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• One of the best records I’ve ever heard.  Seriously, maybe top 20 all-time… I think if Rich Mullins had been given more time here, and if God had blessed his life with love and a wife, if he had the chance to see as much of the relational beauty as he saw of the natural beauty, I think he might have written some songs like the ones we find on BiRDS OF RELOCATiON.  And you know that’s about the highest praise I can give someone.  You will not find a combination of more beautiful poetry, raw honesty, and gorgeous melodies for a long time.

  Todd Agnew

  Beautiful, Song, Honesty

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• The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the obstacles we face. He has shown the way to gain strength during our struggles. With His assistance, we have the ability to succeed. Listen to His words of counsel and comfort: 'Fear not, little children, for you are mine, and I have overcome the world and none of them that my Father hath given me shall be lost.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Children, Father, Struggle

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• The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

  Galeazzo Ciano

  Fighting, Decision, Demon

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• For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

  Mary Bono

  Years, Fcc, Asking

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• I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

  Jim Capaldi

  Strong, Taken, America

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• How many fluids should you take in daily?  That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time.  If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.

  Matt Stone

  Running, Needs, Answers

  Matt Stone (2014). “Diet Recovery: Restoring Hormonal Health, Metabolism, Mood and Your Relationship with Food”, p.53, Matt Stone

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• For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

  Marie Windsor

  Years, Problem, Arthritis

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• I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels that his true immutable essence comes from that invisible realm that offers him an image of reality....I feel that I do not exist in time, but that time exists in me. I can also realize that it is not given to me to solve the mystery of art in an absolute fashion. Nonetheless, I am almost brought to believe that I am about to get my hands on the divine.

  Carlo Carra

  Fashion, Art, Believe

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• Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs of excessive commercialization in every part of the university.' His somber assessment of the current state of athletics, scientific research, and distance education, and his call for review and restraint, should engage the attention of every faculty senate in the country. He has given us a timely, candid, courageous, and important book.

  Frank H. T. Rhodes

  Country, Distance, Book

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• In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Nerd

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• Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They ought to be supported] because of the scientific evidence available to confirm the common-sense inference that local fishers, if given privileged access, will tend to avoid trashing their local stocks, while foreign fishers do not have such motivation.

  Daniel Pauly

  Motivation, Common Sense, Elements

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• The rules you were given were the rules that worked for the person who created them.

  Ellen Langer

  Persons

  Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Ellen Langer, Susan David, Christina Congleton (2017). “Mindfulness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)”, p.9, Harvard Business Press

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• Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Funny, Women, Humor

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• In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Uprising, Parent, Rebel

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• It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.

  Peter Oliver

  People, Support, Rebel

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