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When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Integrity, Men, Law

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Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Swami Vivekananda

Progress, Path, Suits

Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.167, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.

Theodore Annemann

Successful, Simple, Magic

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We should never allow presentation to become a casualty of method.

Tommy Wonder

Magic, Casualties, Should

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Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly

Claude C. Hopkins

Long, Advertising, Folly

Claude C. Hopkins (2010). “Scientific Advertising”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in most circumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Individual Effort, Competition, Arbitrary

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Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the mental attitude by which the individual has to value what is essential for his life.

Ivan Illich

Attitude, Health, Essentials

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I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus ... The reconciliation of the methods which you are planning to make, serves to clarify them mutually, and what they have in common contains very often their true metaphysics; this is why that metaphysics is almost the last thing that one discovers. The spirit arrives at the results as if by instinct; it is only on reflecting upon the route that it and others have followed that it succeeds in generalising the methods and in discovering its metaphysics.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Science, Reflecting Upon, Lasts

"Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800-1840:From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics. Vol.1: The Setting". Book by Grattan-Guinness, p. 139, July 1, 1990.

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Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

Michael O'Brien

Effort, Survival, Saws

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Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know. Whether it will be done, I am not quite certain. But I would bet it can be done.

Edward Teller

Future, Exotic, Done

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Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!

Wilferd Peterson

Believe, Thinking, Errors

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No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.

Calvin Coolidge

Government, Self, Liberty

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To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;)
Is the only method that I know,
To make men happy, and to keep them so.

Thomas Creech

Men, Admiration, Admire

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 9), 1922.

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This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in the face. Then you can rave for weeks about your sauce marinara and no one will gainsay you.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Sailing, Green

P. J. O'Rourke (1987). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, Pocket

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Women are denied masturbation even more severely than men and that's another method of control-they're not taught to please themselves.... Most women-it takes them a while to warm up to the "situation" but once they get into it, I'm sure they're going to get just as hooked as-well, everyone I know is!

Lydia Lunch

Men, Taught, Masturbation

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Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

John Yoo

Pain, Law, Definitions

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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

William Penn

Business, Confusion, Tasks

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.155

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It's not the method, it's the mindset.

Andy Gilbert

Attitude, Mindset

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Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing to do the mental work of releasing and forgiving, almost anything can be healed. The word incurable, which is so frightening to so many people, really only means that the particular condition cannot be cured by 'outer' methods and that we must go within to effect the healing. The condition came from nothing and will go back to nothing.

Louise Hay

Healing, Mean, People

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The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

Laozi

Evil, Distortion, Turns

Colin Bradshaw-Jones, Laozi, Lao Tzu (2006). “The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism”, p.82, Lulu.com

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Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

James Harvey Robinson

Success, Way, Doe

James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method.

Steve Aoki

Grateful, Smoking, Genius

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A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Jackson Pollock

Mean, Feelings, Growth

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He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

Douglas Adams

Trying, Usual, Velocity

Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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When followed correctly, the Dukan Diet is both a safe and effective method of weight loss.

Pierre Dukan

Loss, Weight, Safe

"Dukan Diet Founder Sues for Libel" by JuJu Chang and Jessica Hopper, abcnews.go.com. June 01, 2011.

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