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• Sheriff Knezovich's bill was poorly-written and not constitutional, according to many attorneys, including myself, that reviewed it. We want to go forward with something that's going to stand up to the scrutiny that all bills go under once they've been passed into law.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Law, Insane

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• My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

  Christina Aguilera

  Dream, Growing Up, Divorce

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• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Science

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.359, Princeton University Press

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• The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Wise, Simple

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• The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about note taking. It's about receiving and processing the world in a more complete and insightful way. It's a software upgrade for your brain. For those who've been shamed into thinking that drawing is either beyond them or beneath them, this book offers a whole new way of mastering the daily onslaught of information and turning it into raw material for discovery. (For those of us who've done this all our lives, the book provides a beautifully conceived and lovingly illustrated treat, and a great gift for our left-brained friends.)

  Stefan G. Bucher

  Book, Thinking, Drawing

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• I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

  Linda Cardellini

  Kind, Generous

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• It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

  James Westphal

  Ideas, Magic, Pops

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• From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Symphony, Triumph, Delight

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• Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.

  Maria Konnikova

  Nature, Creative, Helping

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• First, never go against the best light you have; second, take care that your light be not darkness.

  Thomas Wilson

  Light, Darkness, Care

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• The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Thinking, Climate

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

  David Duchovny

  Interviews, Encounters, Inspired

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• Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.

  Nick Earls

  Book, Moving, Heart

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• Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading. ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Writing, School

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.184, Random House

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• My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.

  Kevin Smith

  Father, Real, Long

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• Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wise, Gratitude, Greatest Treasure

  "The Oprah Winfrey Show Finale". www.oprah.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Improvement, Remember

  Norman Vincent Peale (1975). “Positive Thinking for a Time Like this”

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• In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Travel, Differences

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• There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Travel, Home

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• I am aware of what you're talking about with FEMA camps. What is particularly disturbing about that is they are going to be on former military bases. A ton of people have expressed their concerns that what they're building are prison camps.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Military, Talking

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• A Path Appears is an insightful book focused on how individuals can contribute to positive change and the remarkable people behind the organizations that make it happen. The authors' desire to motivate people to support good causes, learn about the situation in other countries, and find the best way to help their fellow men and women is inspiring.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Book, Men

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• Roy Blount, who is the funniest person I know, journeys deep into the dark heart of humor and brings back a wonderfully insightful, superbly crafted song of the soul that had me laughing and crying too

  Dave Barry

  Song, Heart, Dark

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• The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom concealed vital information about the risks to human health posed by radiation. Dr. Alice Stewart, an audacious and insightful medical researcher, was one of the first experts to alert the world to the dangers of low-level radiation.

  Stewart Udall

  Two, Risk, Age

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