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• The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

  Paulo Mendes da Rocha

  Opportunity, Doe, Realizing

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• The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request, despite them and indeed against them. It is absurd to pivot your whole project, as does a conventional party, on the submission of change to the decision of those who so need to be changed. You might as well make the case for law and order conditional on the approval of the criminals.

  Colin Jordan

  Party, Order, Law

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• Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

  Jamais Cascio

  Example, Action, Natural

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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth. It's sort of freeing: I can say I'm abandoning this thing that I hate forever and I'm moving on to something that's good. I'll find that I'll go back to [the other project] in a day or a week and like it again. But that moment of wanting to trash something -- that Virginia Woolf moment when you have to be stopped from filling your pocket with stones -- comes pretty regularly for me. Switching is probably a good thing.

  Dan Chaon

  Hate, Moving, Virginia

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• Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do.

  Esther Perel

  Identity, Who We Are, Today

  Esther Perel (2009). “Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image.

  Brad Gillis

  Important, Affluent, Demographics

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• There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.

  Steve McConnell

  Moving, Successful, Secret

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• Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Magic, Cards, Ontology

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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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• I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

  Terrence McNally

  Surprise, Turns, Know How

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• Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

  Dallas Willard

  Personal Transformation, Succeed, Imposition

  "Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation".

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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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• A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

  James Keller

  Music, Writing, Men

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• Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are held and projected onto one's self or others they become a project. When the project is enacted it becomes the work, and when the work is completed it appears to be self-existent. Creation is the process of form manifesting from emptiness, where that which arises from the mind comes into existence. Yet the distance between conception and realisation may be enormous, as vast as the distance between the stars.

  Robert Beer

  Stars, Spring, Work

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• We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.

  Sete Gibernau

  Guy, Done, Twins

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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 admit, I do a lot of projects, but it's because I'm in a position now where I'm reading a lot more scripts and plays and things, and I'm really listening to offers and trying to think what I want to do at any given time.

  Bryan Cranston

  Reading, Thinking, Play

  "Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad's craziest season and what's next". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 7, 2012.

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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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• My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

  Nigel Dennis

  Shy, Firsts, Nocturnal

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• Not since the multiplication of the loaves and fishes near the Sea of Galilee has there been creativity as miraculous as that of the Keystone XL pipeline. It has not yet been built but already is perhaps the most constructive infrastructure project since the Interstate Highway System. It has accomplished an astonishing trifecta

  George Will

  Creativity, Sea, Pipeline

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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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• The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms itself through television... I thought it would be interesting to copy the same language. large color pictures are framed in heavy wooden frames with golden plates and hung slightly higher than normal. So viewers get a sore neck watching these events, this is also the case when looking at paintings of saints in cathedrals.

  Carl De Keyzer

  Inspiration, Color, Cnn

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• The trust we build over the years if of tremendous help to me when I start in a new project and need to find associates.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Years, Needs, Helping

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• I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Believe, Bye

  Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA

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