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• We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

  Julian Baggini

  Jobs, Opportunity, Priorities

  "An unequivocal 'no'" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

  David Baldacci

  Believe, People, Justice

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• In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Attitude, War, Party

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• Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.

  Adolf Galland

  War, Winter, Russia

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• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  Tatyana Ali

  School, Long, Matter

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

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• Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.

  Archibald Garrod

  Science, Thinking, Law

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• Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.

  Anthony Giddens

  Philosophical, Taken, Mean

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• The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Order, Style, Grids

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

  Timothy Geithner

  Range, Benign, Plausible

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• You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Jobs, Disappointment, Thinking

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• I don't really get nervous for auditions, because I just see them as mini acting classes. There's no need to have an attachment to the outcome because it's out of your hands after that.

  Isabel Lucas

  Attachment, Hands, Class

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

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• The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires

  Tony Jeary

  Achievement, Desire, Chance

  Tony Jeary, Kim Dower, J.E. Fishman (2005). “Life Is a Series of Presentations: Eight Ways to Inspire, Inform, and Influence Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• It matters not how spiritual a church may profess to be, if souls are not saved, something is radically wrong, and the professed spirituality is simply a false
  experience, a delusion of the devil. People who are
  satisfied to meet together simply to have a good time
  among themselves are far away from God. Real
  spirituality always has an outcome.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Spiritual, Real, People

  Smith, Oswald J., Smith, Paul B., Sybring, Yvonne (1982). “I Have Walked Alone with Jesus : Day by Day Meditations of Oswald J. Smith”

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• Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Worry, Anxiety

  Seth Godin (2012). “V Is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone”, p.10, Penguin

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• Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Responsibility, Law, Election

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• Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

  Joseph Nye

  Done, Coercion, Want

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• The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Disappointment, Revenge, Growth

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• The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Country, Religious, Influence

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.

  Peter Garrett

  Impact, Long, Effort

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• Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Giving Up, Attachment

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hope, Mean, Want

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• Our country is not in crisis. There are no tanks in the streets... No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.

  Jennifer Dunn

  Country, America, President

  "1999 Republican Response to the State Of The Union Address". www.washingtonpost.com. January 19, 1999.

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• We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Thinking, Speak, Existence

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2016

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• One thing is certain: The power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. This is a fact. When you clearly envision a victorious outcome, engrave it in your heart and are firmly convinced that you will attain it, your brain makes every effort to realize the mental image you have created. And then, through your unceasing efforts, that victory is finally made a reality.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Believe, Moving, Heart

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• Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

  Guy Finley

  Struggle, Past, Echoes

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Nov 24, 2016

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