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  Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

  Les Brown

  Giving Up, Powerful, Mean

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• Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

  Christian Dior

  Birthday, Women, Race

  1955 In Collier's Magazine, 10 Jun.

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• On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Intelligent, Jail, Choices

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Cosmic trigger: Down to earth”, New Falcon Pubns

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• A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

  Richard Cobden

  Information, Newspapers, Should

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• The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

  Garrett Hardin

  Population, Optimum

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Expression, Ego, Selfishness

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• I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Character, Mean

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• The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Law, Nervous

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• I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

  Paul Keating

  Trying, Use, Advantage

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Want, Information, Given

  "A Hero for Our Time". Book by Ralph G Martin, 1983.

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• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

  Paul Lynde

  Eight, Small Numbers, House

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• Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

  Archibald Cox

  Men, Law, Goal

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• Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

  David Sarnoff

  Success, Congratulations, Mean

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• For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.

  Allen Weinstein

  People, Roles, Records

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• The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

  Ernst Fischer

  Media, Boss, Mind

  Ernst Fischer (1969). “Art against ideology”

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• Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

  Ben Bernanke

  Long, Important, Employment

  "Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress". www.federalreserve.gov. February 15, 2006.

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• If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Respect, Expression, Knows

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• The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Jobs, Zero, Reality

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• Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life And Love, Congratulations, Entrepreneur

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

  Naomi Campbell

  Children, Effort, Care

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• Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

  Quentin Crisp

  Opportunity, Rude, Motive

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• For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Wise, Perfect

  Leonhard Euler, C. Truesdell (1980). “The Rational Mechanics of Flexible Or Elastic Bodies 1638 - 1788: Introduction to Vol. X and XI”, p.200, Springer Science & Business Media

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• God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

  Jerry Falwell

  Family Love, Support, Example

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• But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

  Barney Frank

  Healthy, Efficiency, Produce

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