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• Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Would Be, Done

  Letters to His Son, 16 Oct. 1747

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• Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

  Eric Ries

  Quality Goods, Progress, Soil

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• Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)

  Richard Preston

  Cutting, Practice, People

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• The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.

  Paulo Freire

  People, World, Problem

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

  Charles Fourier

  Civilization, Doubt, Excellence

  "The Social Destiny of Man: Or, Theory of the Four Movements".

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• My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

  George Polya

  Overcoming, Difficulty, Rounds

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions.  If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

  Vernon Howard

  Perfect, Needs, Awakening

  "The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power". Book by V. A. Howard, 1967.

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• The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

  John Burroughs

  Incredibles, Christianity, Insight

  John Burroughs (1900). “The Light of Day: Religious Discussions and Criticisms from the Naturalist's Point of View”

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• A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

  Alfred Binet

  Memories, Intelligent, Practice

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• Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Teacher, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• A goal without a method is nonsense.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Goal, Management, Nonsense

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• An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

  George Polya

  Math, Ideas, Used

  "Problems and Theorems in Analysis I: Series. Integral Calculus. Theory of Functions".

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• Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow not the dictates of passion, but enlist yourselves under the sacred banner of reason; use every method in your power to secure your rights.

  Joseph Warren

  Wise, Passion, Patriotic

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• A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory or method which is actually relative to the fact that we live at a given moment in time in the development of our particular culture.

  Rollo May

  Perspective, Historical, Facts

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• The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence.

  Nicholas Eberstadt

  Long, Population, Generations

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• Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

  James Webb Young

  Principles, Drs, Facts

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• What may begin as a temporary method to circumvent reasoned discussion and debate for the sake of a prized political goal may very well end up permanently undermining the trust required for its existence.

  Jason Stanley

  Goal, Political, Sake

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• At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.

  Carl Bernstein

  Heart, White, House

  Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1999). “All the President's Men”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

  Martin Fowler

  Red Flags, Made, Clear

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• I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

  Martin Puryear

  Casting, Carving, I Realized

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• We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.

  Roland Allen

  Missionary, Want, Results

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• Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

  Barry McGuigan

  Boxing, Training, Century

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

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• A mantra is basically a means of talking with your thoughts and feelings. It's a time-honored method sometimes referred to as prayer, but really it's an opening of a conversation between the heart and the mind.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Prayer, Heart, Mean

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2012). “Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation”, p.11, Random House

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• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  P.R. Halmos, Paul Richard Halmos (1982). “A Hilbert Space Problem Book”, p.7, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Math, Order

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Kay Ogden (1998). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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