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• The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

  John Peers

  Answers, Helping, Problem

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• Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.

  Mary Blakely

  Mean, Kids, Yale

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom Motherhood Politics and Humble Pie”, Pocket

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• Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

  John Milton

  Satan, Pandemonium, Paradise Lost Book 1

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 756 (1667)

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• My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

  Conrad Hall

  Mean, Winning, Differences

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• When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

  Christine Gregoire

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

  Horatio Nelson

  Running, Long Ago, Should Have

  Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.353

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• Soderquist's Paradox: There are more horses' asses than horses.

  John Peers

  Horse, Ass, Paradox

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• The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Law, Liberty

  Winston Churchill (1952). “The Second World War”

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• I've always looked for my affirmation through my peers, the people I race against, and within my team.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Team, Race, People

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• People will envy you to the extent that you start out with a group of people and you rise up the organization faster than them. Get over what your peers are thinking about you because your peers are also your competitors.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Thinking About You, Organization, People

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• I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

  David Mitchell

  Cutting, Parent, Savages

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• A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Successful, Patterns, Recognition

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.100, Penguin

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• Hermits have no peer pressure.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Solitude

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• The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Home, Technology, Ideas

  "Living In The Present Is A Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.

  Jon Landau

  Art, Men, Rocks

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• There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

  Eloisa James

  Velvet, Towels, Meetings

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• I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

  Sara Paxton

  Teenager, Thinking, Peer Pressure

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• I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

  Katy Perry

  Bravery, Magic, Secret

  "Katy Conquers All" by Claire Hoffman, www.marieclaire.com. December 9, 2013.

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• For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy, wear or think. Now consumers possess the same ability to produce, distribute and curate content and distribute it to their peers in real time across social media platforms.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Real, Thinking, Media

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• I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it’s so rarely in the hands of women.

  Jane Fonda

  Opportunity, Hands, Film

  "Show Me the Women — In Hollywood" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2010.

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• We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

  Vince McMahon

  Thinking, Mirrors, Looks

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• Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

  Al Gore

  Culture, Peer Review, Scientific Method

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL". Interview with Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

  George McGovern

  War, Fighting, Watches

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• Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

  Sylvia Earle

  Cities, Feet, Forests

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• The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Age, Stopping, Employee

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