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• It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Patriotic, Responsibility, Men

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• Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Sea, Events, Enough

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• In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

  Harri Holkeri

  Order, People, Mind

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• A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

  Fanny Kemble

  Fall, Numbers, Weakness

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.40

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• Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake.

  David Benatar

  Life, Baby, Sex

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Believe, Doubt, Resentment

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Able, Mathematics

  Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

  John T. Flynn

  Fascism, Dictatorship

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• Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

  Dan Harmon

  Perfect, Pressure, Life Is

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• As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have committed mass suicide. The women, exhausted by labor, have shunned conception and childbirth . . . Many, when pregnant, have taken something to abort and have aborted. Others after delivery have killed their children with their own hands, so as not to leave them in such oppressive slavery.

  James W. Loewen

  Suicide, Children, Taken

  James W. Loewen (2007). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.

  Walter Lang

  Space, People, Leader

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• Prayer is action. By it we step out in advance of all other results . . . Praying is an activity upon which all others depend. By prayer we establish a beachhead for the kingdom among peoples where it has never been before. Prayer strikes the winning blow. All other missionary efforts simply gather up the fruits of our praying.

  David Bryant

  Prayer, Blow, Winning

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• Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.

  Larry Winget

  Responsibility, Opportunity, People

  Larry Winget (2011). “Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

  Helmut Jahn

  Long, Goal, Needs

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• Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

  Hakim Bey

  Deployment, Sorcery, Ordinary

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.22, Autonomedia

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• I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

  Iris Apfel

  Discovery, Years, Shopping

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• But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.

  Gladys Taber

  Jobs, Fun, Lying

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• Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always
  high, and the results usually disappointing.

  Robert Orben

  Expectations, Pandas, Disappointing

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• Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Self, Discipline, Talent

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

  Tim Ferriss

  Opposites, What If, Defining

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• Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Thinking, Ends, Believer

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• I maintain my conviction that there are NO pyramids at Visoko, Bosnia.
  Rather, all the so-called pyramids are the result of natural geological processes
  and phenomena that are currently being 'excavated' (i.e., modified) to look
  like pyramids.

  Robert M. Schoch

  Pyramids, Bosnia, Looks

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• This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.

  Andrew Klavan

  Choices, Way, Action

  Andrew Klavan (2009). “Empire of Lies”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don’t need to go out there and trick guys, and I don’t need to go out there and be perfect. I've just got to attack the strike zone, let my stuff work and get much better results that way.

  Stephen Strasburg

  Perfect, Guy, Needs

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• Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Party, Pregnancy, Marijuana

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