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• What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Real, Order, Color

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• A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already reached it. Peak Oil happened in 1970 in America, when over half of our oil that we gained from the soil was exhausted ... This is very disturbing, regardless of global warming.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, America, Oil

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• Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Animal, Men, Wisest Man

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.277, Macmillan

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• The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.

  David J. Schwartz

  Progress, Steps, Principles

  David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.315, Random House

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• Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Life, Live Your Life

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• If we have to continue to live under sequestration, it will have a maximum impact on our ability to fulfill the president's strategic guidance. We can't do it all. It's as simple as that, with the limitations of the budget as severe as they are. These deep, abrupt cuts have forced us to make decisions that are not in the interest of America.

  Chuck Hagel

  Cutting, Simple, Impact

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.

  Scott Adams

  Death, Suicide, Thinking

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.445, Penguin

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• When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.

  Jeremy Griffith

  Expression, Insecurity, Enlightenment

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• For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

  Willow Bay

  Friends, Impact, Speak Less

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• Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back on content so we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Cutting

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• This sounds strange to many people, but I work out for exactly 16 minutes every day, and do so at maximum speed by running 2.5 miles. This keeps me healthy without taking up too much time so I can stay focused on other things. It's one of the most efficient things I do each day.

  Luis von Ahn

  Running, People, Work Out

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• For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

  Meister Eckhart

  Heart, Empty, Capacity

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• It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Government, Tasks, Guarantees

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• It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

  Mark Twain

  Wells, Behave

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• What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

  Antonio Gramsci

  Acceptance, Intellectual, Limits

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• Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Stupidity, Competition, Records

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• We need to have an education system in New Jersey and all over the country that makes all of our kids, either college or career ready. It should be their choice. I mean, every kid doesn't want to go to college. But I think we should aspire to let every child reach his maximum or her maximum potential.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Children, Mean

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Achieve, Results

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• [Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.

  Steve Ballmer

  Apples, Issues, People

  "Worth Watching: Steve Ballmer in the heart of Silicon Valley", ZDNet, September 26, 2008.

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• International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and theories, with maximum publicity of ultimate and intermediate goals, and with a consistency of principles.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Views, Goal, Fearless

  Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

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• What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

  Damien Hirst

  Effort, Minimum, Effects

  1995 In the Idler, 10 Jul.

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• This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics.

  William John Macquorn Rankine

  Law, Energy, Heat

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• You have different levels of players. There's are Premier League, international and world-class levels. The world-class level is players at the peak of their career and there's only maybe 50 maximum in the whole world. Stevie moved from a Premier League player to an international player and then world class.

  Gerard Houllier

  Player, Class, Careers

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• Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Fellow Man, Commodity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Office, Political

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books

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