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• Roll big blunts, a whole ounce of reefer
  Rocked that 'Black and Yellow' before Wiz Khalifa
  It's a killer bee color scheme

  Ghostface Killah

  Rap, Color, Yellow

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• He's got lots of money and clearly has grandiose schemes, seeing himself as an important global player. There is a reality to it. Oil is at record prices, and he's willing to spend both in Venezuela and in the region. But the question is, how much influence is he gaining

  Michael Shifter

  Player, Reality, Oil

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• We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the “thick of thin things.” In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Important, Looks, Care

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• No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Father, Ideas

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.

  Patrick Ewing

  Smart, Play, Important

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• Hillary does nothing without careful calculation. She knows that politicians - provided they have real power - who bash entire industries tend to raise huge dollars from individuals in those industries. Certain types of politicians are drawn to this marketing technique because they think the 'bashing' also can be held up as proof that they are not being corrupted. This scheme is called 'putting the squeeze on.' Does that phrase remind you of anything?

  Donald Luskin

  Real, Thinking, Political

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• I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Perspective, Alternatives

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Failure, Animal

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• I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

  Zachary Taylor

  Party, Government, Presidential

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• We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Government, Years

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• If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.

  David Rockefeller

  Ignorance, Government, Vision

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• The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

  Richard Stallman

  Trust, Powerful, Appreciate

  "How I Do My Computing". Personal Website, www.stallman.org.

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• The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.

  Richard Reti

  Games, Decision, Chess

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• Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves."

  Henry Hazlitt

  Philosophy, Government, Free Gifts

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• But we must also look at renewable heat technology. More combined heat and power schemes, putting waste heat to better use. More district heating schemes. And more electric air and ground-source heat pumps, drawing warmth from the outside world to heat the indoors. Better insulation, smarter homes, and more efficient heating can help us cut our energy demand.

  Chris Huhne

  Home, Cutting, Technology

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• The financial system as a whole has had the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme if we look at it fundamentally.

  Tim Lee

  Looks, Financial, Environment

  "Was whole economy a Ponzi scheme?". www.nytimes.com. January 1, 2009.

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• We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called Planet Earth. As we learn how we fit into the greater scheme of things, and begin to understand how the system works, we can plan ahead, we can use the resources responsibly, to show some respect for this inheritance that goes back 4.6 billion years.

  Sylvia Earle

  Responsibility, Years, Ecosystems

  "Ambassador for the World's Oceans". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 27, 1991.

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• A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

  James Payn

  Race, Accomplishment, Example

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• You may object that by speaking of simplicity and beauty I am introducing aesthetic criteria of truth, and I frankly admit that I am strongly attracted by the simplicity and beauty of mathematical schemes which nature presents us. You must have felt this too: the almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of the relationship, which nature suddenly spreads out before us.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Nature, Truth, Science

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• The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work.

  George Washington

  Country, Heart, People

  George Washington, Thomas J. Fleming (1967). “Affectionately Yours, George Washington: A Self-portrait in Letters of Friendship”, New York : Norton

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• Any anti-bullying scheme, initiative or policy which fails to mention accountability for the bullies is likely to meet with little, and often no, success

  Tim Field

  Bullying, Accountability, Littles

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• Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence, and great designs which are defeated by inexperience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them; we are able to plan schemes, and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Design, Age, Inexperience

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• Every prosperous person who does not work has a creative scheme that does.

  John Otway

  Funny, Gambling, Creative

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• Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.

  Gary Bauer

  Suicide, Believe, Government

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• You may be trying to attain power in this world, then you start trying to attain power in that world. First you want to attain wealth in this world, then you try to attain wealth in that world. But you remain the same, and the mind and the functioning and the whole scheme remains the same: Attain! Reach! This is the ego trip. The achieving mind is the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Mind, Trying

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