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• Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Failing, Invest In Yourself

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• ...We need to strive to keep things in proper balance. Good balance comes in doing things in a timely way and in not procrastinating our preparation or waiting to fulfill our responsibilities until the last minute.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Responsibility, Waiting, Balance

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• It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Hurt, Disappointment, Communication

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• Strong families are not an accident...They take thought and intention and preparation and skill.

  Julie B. Beck

  Family, Strong, Skills

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• Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

  Leopold Trepper

  Army, Red, Updates

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• Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Fields, Bread

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• Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Military, Two Sides, Defeat

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Voice, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

  Kurt Browning

  Fun, Skating, Pressure

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• As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Men, Sitting, Gestures

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

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• Looking at the line-up of speakers at the (Democratic National) Convention, I have developed the 7-11 challenge: I will quit making fun of, for example, Dennis Kucinich, if he can prove he can run a 7-11 properly for 8 hours. We'll even let him have an hour or so of preparation before we open up. Within 8 hours, the money will be gone, the store will be empty, and he'll be explaining how three 11-year olds came in and asked for the money and he gave it to them.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Fun, Years

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• To approach animals in their most natural, native settings. I have to understand the mysteries of their behavior. With careful preparation, I can show the animal in its best light, demonstrating its beauty, strength and intelligence.

  Paul Nicklen

  Animal, Light, Mystery

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• The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

  John Lanchester

  Planning, Seven, Poor

  John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.308, Faber & Faber

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• The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

  Kate Capshaw

  People, Library, Acting

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

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• Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship.

  Wallace Stegner

  Writing, Ambition, School

  "On Teaching and Writing Fiction".

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• I was just glad I've got an opponent, to be honest. This is my third opponent for this fight prep. [I'm over the moon] to be fighting in my hometown and I just didn't want that taken away. The fact that they've got me a new opponent, I'm not bothered who it is. I just focus on what I can control in my preparation and that's all I've got to worry about. My opponent changes but they're all great fighters in the UFC. Doesn't matter who you step in there with, it's going to be a tough fight.

  Richie Vaculik

  Workout, Taken, Fighting

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• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  War, Causes, Causes Of War

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest school.

  Thucydides

  Lying, Believe, School

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Heart, Needs, Speak

  "Mina von Barnhelm" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, V. 4, September 30, 1767.

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• This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

  Richard Baxter

  Perfection, This Life

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.254

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• What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Men, People

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• American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Son, Careers, People

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “ON THE CONTRARY”

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• Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on the contrary, whilst terror and bloodshed reign in the land, involving men's minds in the extremities of hopes and fears, there can be no process of thought, no education going on, by which alone can a people be prepared for the enjoyment of rational liberty.

  Richard Cobden

  War, Mean, Men

  Richard Cobden (1835). “England, Ireland, and America”, p.44

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• Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  People, Heaven, Far Away

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (1947). “Systematic Theology”

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• Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

  Paul Brown

  Football, Keys, Littles

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