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• One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.

  Sargent Shriver

  Trying, Littles, Taught

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• A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited.

  John Hollander

  Long, Waiting, Secret

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• As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

  Stanislav Grof

  Government, Long, Energy

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• Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than project that ponderous responsibility-lest we prefer instead to wallow in a perennial state of powerless, frustrated, furious, victimhood. For what one possesses the power to bring about, one has also the power to limit, Mitigate, counteract, or transmute.

  Stephen A. Diamond

  Responsibility, Evil, Frustrated

  Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.85, SUNY Press

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• Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

  Norman Lamm

  Men, Innocent Man, Views

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• When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

  Orlando Bloom

  Moving, Play, Guy

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 3, 2005.

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• I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge which this one had. I have confidence in the equipment, the planning, the training. I suspect that on a risk-gain ratio, this project would compare very, very favorably with those to which I've been accustomed on the past 20 years.

  Neil Armstrong

  Future, Past, Years

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• To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Children, Team

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• Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'

  Jay Carney

  Bridges, Bills, Defense

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• When a warrior is present and awake to all that she is, she is able to take on any challenge, any project, or any future that she desires. Her daily prayer is to have the strength to love all of herself, the courage to listen to what she is guided to do and the confidence to go out, stand tall and deliver her gifts to the world.

  Debbie Ford

  Prayer, Warrior, Challenges

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• Love. It isn't very popular in technical circles to say a lot of mushy stuff about love, but frankly it's a very very important part of what holds our project together.

  Jimmy Wales

  Circles, Important, Together

  "Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Responds". Slashdot Interview, slashdot.org. July 28, 2004.

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• The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements.

  Pliny the Elder

  Business, Men, Mind

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• Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

  Antony Hewish

  Team, Sky, Paper

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• Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.

  Alex Lifeson

  Boss, Done, Solo

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• The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Flower, Roots, Tree

  Akira Kurosawa (2011). “Something Like An Autobiography”, p.192, Vintage

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• The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

  Michael Korda

  Past, Skills, Accomplishment

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• What we project, we get back.

  Tony Clark

  Law Of Attraction, Get Back, Attraction

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• One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

  Samuel Wilson

  Responsibility, Science, Decision

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• I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form.

  Maya Lin

  Writing, Giving, Trying

  Maya Lin (2016). “Boundaries”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

  Christopher Nolan

  Hands, Way, Film

  "CinemaCon: Christopher Nolan Talks 'Interstellar,' Plugs Film Over Digital in Hollywood Reporter Q&A" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 26, 2014.

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• I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

  Mike Judge

  Teacher, School, Class

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• By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

  Bob Menendez

  Bridges, Aggravation, Safe

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• At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

  Simon van der Meer

  Team, Hockey, Study Group

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• When I connect to my soul, project it into another #‎ character , and then bring it to the stage or to a film--that has always been for me the great joy of #‎ acting . It's been as if my soul kind of leaps out of my body and is able to be free and dance around.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Character, Joy, Soul

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