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• A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

  Barbara Cartland

  Marriage, Husband, Women

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• I haven`t prepared as much as I would like to but it will be fun to get out there again. I have nothing left to prove in surfing but still have the desire to keep going.

  Layne Beachley

  Fun, Surfing, Desire

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• Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn't like to be ignored like this. It doesn't like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.

  Beverley Nichols

  Spring, Heart, Gay

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• I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that.

  Stirling Moss

  Running, Giving Up, Believe

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• As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly. Mediocrity is not about failing, and it's the opposite of doing. Mediocrity, in other words, is about not trying. The reason is achingly simple, and I know you've heard it a thousand times before: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Simple, Opposites, Long

  Georges St-Pierre (2013). “The Way of the Fight”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared for you by your ancestors. You sit under the shade of trees that you did not plant or cultivate or care for. You have a choice in life, you can just sit back, getting fat, dumb, and happy, consuming all the blessings put before you, or it can metabolize inside of you, become fuel to get you into the fight, to make this democracy real, to make it true to its words that we can be a nation of liberty and justice for all.

  Cory Booker

  Real, Fighting, Opportunity

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• Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams.

  Donovan Bailey

  Dream, Hard Work, Passion

  "I don’t miss running, says Donovan Bailey". Interview with Paul Irish, www.thestar.com. November 28, 2011.

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• If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.

  John Hoeven

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

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• The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

  Maria Montessori

  Cutting, Islands, People

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• If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Believe, Suffering, Enough

  Shashi Tharoor (1993). “The Great Indian Novel”, p.48, Arcade Publishing

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• Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.

  Haile Selassie

  Mean, Men, Opportunity

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.

  Chancellor Williams

  Leadership, Responsibility, Writing

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• I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming.

  Tim Ferriss

  Dream, Battle

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• The spirit of the law is the least of the things we're prepared to violate.

  Howard Tayler

  Law, Spirit

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• When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.

  Howard Tayler

  Ideas, Messengers, Cases

  "Schlock Mercenary". Webcomic by Howard Tayler, 2003-2006.

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• I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Writing, Mean, Stories

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• If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.

  Catharine Beecher

  Mind, Faces, Female

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1829). “Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education: Presented to the Trustees of the Hartford Female Seminary, and Published at Their Request”, p.16

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• I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!

  John Aspinall

  Years, Majority, Would Be

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• I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.

  Pete Carroll

  Powerful, Hard Work, Over You

  Pete Carroll, Yogi Roth, Kristoffer A. Garin (2011). “Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion”, p.79, Penguin

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• We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Work, Russia, Europe

  Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.

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• Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.

  Mary Whitehouse

  Country, Men, Years

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• The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling, murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release.

  Susan McClary

  Symphony, Frustrated, Movement

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• I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.

  Eva Hart

  Helping, Volunteerism, Cynicism

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• The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.

  Robert J. Havighurst

  Light, People, Identity

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• The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Ideas, Preparation, Doe

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