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• Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

  Lee Hall

  Culture, Excluded

  "The Pitmen Painters reminds us that arts funding can change lives" by Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2011.

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• You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

  Todd Haynes

  Art, Rocks, Envy

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2007.

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• We don't enter relationships hoping to create an extraordinary existence;
  we come to them to share one with someone else.

  Matthew Hussey

  Existence, Extraordinary

  Matthew Hussey (2013). “Get the Guy: Use the Secrets of the Male Mind to Find, Attract and Keep Your Ideal Man”, p.40, Random House

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• Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.

  Randi Weingarten

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.

  Brandi Carlile

  Kids, Gay, Thinking

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• Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Successful, Giving, Entrepreneur

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• When I played, Old-Timers Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees... It was an out-of-body experience.

  Goose Gossage

  Yankees, Favorite Day, Body

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• If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease.

  John Mellencamp

  Bars, Use, Ease

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• I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

  Larry McMurtry

  Mistake, Careers, People

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Cadillac Jack: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.

  Bruce Feiler

  Names, Desire, Stories

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• ...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, People

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• The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.

  Quentin Bryce

  Powerful, Communication, Opportunity

  "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 19, 2010.

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• Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vanity, People, Dislike

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.2

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• In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

  Alex Berenson

  Wall, Likes, Great Company

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• Without hope of reward
  Provide help to others.
  Bear suffering alone,
  And share your pleasures with beggars.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Suffering, Rewards, Bears

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• The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined.

  Kim Dotcom

  People, Stuff, Entertainment

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• My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

  Chris Abani

  People, Everyday, Looks

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Cutting, Years, People

  "Austan Goolsbee: Eric Cantor Misrepresenting Obama’s Economic Policies" by Bonnie Kavoussi, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.

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• You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about.

  Jane Elliott

  Fear, Power, People

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• I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.

  Peter Temple

  Country, Thinking, Issues

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• The most functional way to regulate difficult emotions in love relationships is to share them.

  Sue Johnson

  Love Relationship, Way, Emotion

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• Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will lead us to a planet without countries, without wars, without patriotism, without religions, without poverty, where we will be able to share the world. Actually, maybe I am not sure I truly believe that I believe this, but I do want to believe that I believe this.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Country, War, Believe

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• My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world.

  Leah LaBelle

  Successful, Goal, Singers

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• More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

  Ben Parr

  Real, May, Information

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• Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy; don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan from people who can help you move it forward.

  Sara Blakely

  Moving, Ideas, People

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