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• Sports don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But in the moment, when things are just right, they're the most important thing in the world. That's what makes them so great.

  David Poole

  Sports, Important, World

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• The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

  Dennis Prager

  May, Welfare, States

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• Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

  Rachel Maddow

  Social, Outrage, Ponzi Scheme

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• Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

  Jill Lepore

  Marketing, Quarters, Stage

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• There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.

  Sean Parker

  Artist, Labels, Brewing

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• I want to ensure and the Government wants to ensure that Australia is well prepared to tackle dangerous climate change with a scheme which is both responsible and which meets our international commitments.

  Wayne Swan

  Commitment, Government, Australia

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

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• Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

  James Merrill

  Vocabulary, Fit, Arthur

  James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf

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• What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one of them stock’d with so many Herbs, Trees and Animals, and adorn’d with so many Seas and Mountains! And how must our wonder and admiration be encreased when we consider the prodigious distance and multitude of the Stars?

  Christiaan Huygens

  Stars, Distance, Animal

  "Cosmotheoros". Book by Christiaan Huygens, Book 2, pp. 150-151, as quoted in the English translation "The Celestial Worlds Discover'd" (1722), 1695.

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• Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.

  Tao Lin

  Pyramid Schemes, Self, Ideas

  Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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• Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Names, Faces

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• You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy.

  Delano Johnson

  Captivating, Fantastic, Ecstasy

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• Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Vegetables, Free Food, Source

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• A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

  John Rawls

  Expectations, Would Be, Unjust

  "A Theory of Justice". Book by John Rawls, 1971.

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• I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.

  Joss Whedon

  Believe, Reality, Morality

  YouTube Channel "baillou2"/"Joss Whedon: Atheist & Absurdist", www.youtube.com. March 28, 2010.

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• The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Littles, Finance, Taxes

  Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, J.R. McCulloch (2013). “History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch”, p.148, Coventry House Publishing

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• Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Names, Law, Bears

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.281

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• It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books

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• Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Philosophy, Character, Mean

  "The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. viii), 1962.

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• There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

  Jack McDevitt

  Regret, Real, Justice

  Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.410, Hachette UK

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• A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and line An' sky an' stream is always fine; Men come real close to God's design, Out fishin'. A feller isn't plotting schemes, Out fishin'. He's only busy with his dreams, Out fishin' His livery is a coat of tan; His creed, to do the best he can; A feller's always mostly man Out fishin'.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Real, Men

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Out Fishin'”

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• The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.

  John D. Voelker

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• The schemes to set up blacks in cleaning stores, gas stations, hamburger stands and fried-chicken franchises, all the low-profit, low-capital enterprises, will rivet the Black man to the least remunerative section of the economy forever. The best such prospects offer are the dissatisfactions of blue-collar life. The big money ain't in pumping rationed gas in an Amoco station leased in your very own name, but in having stock in Exxon.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Men, Blue

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• Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

  Raymond Aron

  Atheism, Events, Chance

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• This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness, And his artist sense that drives him to shape his life To something harmonious, even against the schemes of God.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Kindness, Heart, Sadness

  Edgar Lee Masters, “Clarence Darrow”

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• The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand and aren't prepared to cope with. I know. I am a peasant myself. ... I say, Spit on the big, fancy schemes. I want all the little things first. Then perhaps we can get on to the bigger things.

  Ramon Magsaysay

  Mistake, Simple, Political

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