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• We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  War, Mean, Eras

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

  Richard Gere

  Meditation, Quality, Mindfulness

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• I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.

  Seth Godin

  Communication, Writing, Ideas

  "Interview: Seth Godin On How Often To Post To Your Blog". Interview with B.L. Ochman, January 12, 2009.

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• You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

  Al Goldstein

  New York, Fighting, Battle

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• Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.

  Grimes

  Girl, Fun, Crazy

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• Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

  Alex Haley

  Funny, Animal, Turtles

  "A Touch of Class" by Carol Vanderheyden, (p. 60), 2003.

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• I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

  Patty Hearst

  Stress, Mean, Two

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• It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Growing, Sects

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• One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

  Lee Iacocca

  Running, Government, Office

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• Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

  Michael Jordan

  Nba, Careers, Goal

  "N.B.A. Board Approves Jordan’s Purchase of the Bobcats" by Richard Sandomir, www.nytimes.com. March 17, 2010.

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• The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

  Bill Keller

  Queens, Celebrity Gossip, Wings

  "The NYT versus the Huffington Post: a cat fight over kitten videos" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Hurt, Hangover, Holiday

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• I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Country, Thinking, Pages

  The NewsBusters Interview, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2012.

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• I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Satisfaction, Satisfied

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• An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Funny, Humorous, Men

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• Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Bullying, Stress, Party

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• Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.

  John Lydon

  Ipods, People, Listening

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• It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.

  Rachel Maddow

  Littles, Stuff, Potatoes

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.2, Broadway Books

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• Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

  Theresa May

  Mean, Years, Police

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• Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

  Kevin McCloud

  Beauty, Beautiful, Philosophy

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• Well, let me tell you, if you're 45, had three children and are post-menopausal, you're not going to weigh what you did the day you graduated from high school. Get that out of your head. That's a media-driven ideal that you're never going to healthfully obtain.

  Phil McGraw

  Children, School, Media

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

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• I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, 'God is not mad at you.' Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, 'That is exactly what I needed to hear today.' Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, People, Mad

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• The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

  Dylan Moran

  War, East, Mysterious

  "Interview: Irish Comic Dylan Moran Takes America by Typhoon". Interview With Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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