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• Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Spring, Self, Initiative

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• Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Behavior, Synergy

  What I Have Learned "How Little I Know" (1968)

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• I wouldn't say Musashi is ordinary. But he is. That's what's extraordinary about him. He is not content to rely on whatever natural gifts he may have. Knowing he is ordinary, he is constantly trying to improve himself. No one appreciates the agonizing effort he's had to make. Now that his years of training have yielded such spectacular results, everybody's talking about his 'God-given talent.' That's how men who don't try very hard comfort themselves.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Men, Talking, Years

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• I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Years, Maldives

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• Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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• In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen — the most complete — is Scholes. I have spoken with Xabi Alonso about this many times. Scholes is a spectacular player who has everything. He can play the final pass, he can score, he is strong, he never gets knocked off the ball and he doesn’t give possession away. If he had been Spanish then maybe he would have been valued more.

  Xavi

  Strong, Player, Years

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• The theology of the hammer embraces wholeheartedly the idea that the love of God and love of man must be blended. The word and the deed must come together. One without the other is devoid of meaning … As the deed gets closer to the word, God gets closer to us. The results are always wonderful — and sometimes spectacular!

  Millard Fuller

  Men, Ideas, Together

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• During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Past, Years

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

  Jon Postel

  World, World Wide Web, Wide

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• Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?

  Liberace

  Steps, Slips

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• Leo Messi is a spectacular player, there is nobody else like him. I should not because I have suffered so much in training. I think he is the best forward at the moment and I think he will be so for many more years. He has his feet on the ground.

  Carles Puyol

  Player, Thinking, Years

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• Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all your responsibilities as a father and as a partner. And just discovery and the great adventure of having eyes wide open. There’s so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way. By using my career as the wind in the sails of my adventures, I could see so many things and so many people that I might have missed had my career gone a different direction.

  Robert Plant

  Beautiful, Father, Adventure

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

  B. W. Powe

  Goal, Defined

  "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.

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• Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Suicide, Humorous, Savages

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Writing, Character, Awkward

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• The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

  David Harvey

  Form, Crisis, Shakes

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  New York, People, September 11

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• I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. Its a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.

  Gail Simmons

  Swimming, Rivers, Tree

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• Upon its debut, The Room was a spectacular bomb, pulling in all of $1,800 during its initial two-week Los Angeles run. It wasn't until the last weekend of the film's short release that the seeds of its eventual cultural salvation were planted. While passing a movie theater, two young film students named Michael Rousselet and Scott Gairdner noticed a sign on the ticket booth that read: NO REFUNDS. Below the sign was this blurb from a review: “Watching this film is like getting stabbed in the head.” They were sold.

  Greg Sestero

  Running, Weekend, Two

  Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell (2014). “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Light, Up To You

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.2, New Riders

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• Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

  Carolyn Porco

  Romance, Style, Different

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• I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.

  Nelson DeMille

  Beach, Home, Gold

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• [Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a "world" city, more European in some respects than American.

  John Gunther

  Respect, New York, Cities

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• If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

  Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

  Wall, Shopping, Long

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• History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

  Mildred Cable

  War, People, Records

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