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• The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fear, Real, Vanity

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• ...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

  George B. Ward

  Photography, Grace, Technique

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• We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, War, May

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by the skillful use of the force of the wind, and the steering, in any direction, is the result of skillful manoeuvres; so that by a moderate wind a man can, with an aeroplane, un- provided with any motor whatever, rise up into the air and direct himself at will, even against the wind itself.

  Louis Pierre Mouillard

  Men, Air, Eagles

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• By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Heaven, Historical

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• The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not
  in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their
  pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders, but out of the
  faithful and skillful building of the good society.

  Abba Hillel Silver

  Pride, Destiny, Israel

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• We have the most skillful, firecest, and certainly the most ethical ground forces in the world... I'm not saying we have to commit right now, but certainly don't pull it off the table.

  James Mattis

  Military, Tables, World

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• Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

  Greg Koukl

  Use Of Knowledge, Method, Diplomatic

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• Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Learning, Skills, Decision

  Benjamin Franklin (1914). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

  John Ruskin

  Wise, Intelligent, Choices

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• The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

  Madame Roland

  Wise, People, Judging

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• The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Artist, Men, He Man

  Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.133, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.

  Robin Morgan

  Fear, Hate, Evil

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• My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Ambition, Order

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• Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Medicine, Heaven, Attention

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 3,

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• If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth storey to the ground, you will never be able to produce great works.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Fall, Men, Jumping

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• On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever by walking to the bank at Greenwich to get the money to which my father's letter of credit entitled me. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France, whose name was a common one, John Smith, took particular charge of me, removed me to Morristown, N. J., and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies who kept a boarding - house. To their skilful and untiring ministrations I may safely say I owe the prolongation of my life.

  John James Audubon

  New York, Men, Kind Man

  "Selected Journals and Other Writings".

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• People are so skillful in their ignorance!

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Ignorance, People

  J. Donald Walters, Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda (Paramahansa) (2004). “Conversations with Yogananda”, p.292, Crystal Clarity Publishers

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• The non-doing of any evil,
  the performance of what's skillful,
  the cleansing of one's own mind:
  this is the teaching of the Awakened.

  Gautama Buddha

  Teaching, Evil, Mind

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• Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

  B. F. Skinner

  Men, Let Me, Wells

  B. F. Skinner (2015). “Cumulative Record: Definitive Edition”, p.32, B. F. Skinner Foundation

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• Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.

  Richard Hornby

  Self, Everyday, Acting

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• Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Practice, Breathing

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• Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Player, Casting

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• Always leave people with a solution; the heaven if you do versus the hell if you don't. If you're really skillful you can put the person into the future solution. Shoaff used to say, 'Jim, I can see you now in your new clothes, in your new home, in your new car. I can see others walking up to you.' The Promise of the Future is an Awesome Force!

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Home

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• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Men

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