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• I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Giving, Victory

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• The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have a playfulness about it. As the world shifts, it's starting to understand more and more that to have a playfulness about any and everything is actually the way of having a better life, or being more creative, or being more productive.

  Hans Zimmer

  Fun, Thinking, Play

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• It's hard to put it in perspective right now. I'm starting to feel a little emotional about what's going to happen Friday night. Getting your number put in the rafters is always something that as a kid ... you dream of seeing happen to you.

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Friday, Dream

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• A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

  Anne Bancroft

  Travel, Life Lesson, Thinking

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• The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because of all the losses. Some of the guys are feeling the pressure now from the last year when they were not successful.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Successful, Loss

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• So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.

  Kevin Garnett

  Basketball, Nice, Pride

  Inside Hoops Interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

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• Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner, and enable us to infer of one class of phenomena what we know of another. It has thus happened on several occasions that the discovery of an unsuspected analogy between two branches of knowledge has been the starting point for a rapid course of discovery.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

  William Stanley Jevons (1874). “The Principles of Science: Book IV. Inductive investigation. Book V. Generalization, analogy, and classification. Book VI. Reflections on the results and limits of scientific method”, p.288

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• Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility.

  Nikola Tesla

  Success, Running, Science

  "Tesla Says Edison Was an Empiricist". The New York Times, October 19, 1931.

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• So many rings, my fingers starting to hizzurt. If you didnt know me you did swear I had that wizzork.. and I am from Pittsburgh.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Pittsburgh, Fingers

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• If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over

  Macklemore

  Rap, Starting Over, Example

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• Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Technology, People, Innovation

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• I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions for a fatal hemorrhage. The system will never change because our starting point is flawed. The secular view of man can neither give the grandeur that God alone can give, nor can it see the evil within the human heart that God alone can reveal and cure, for atheism implicitly denudes each individual of the grand image God has imprinted upon His creation.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Heart, Men, Views

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “Can Man Live Without God”, p.140, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or mountain ranges along the way. We don't even know how long the path is.

  Francis Collins

  Couple, Wall, Dark

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• But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.

  Hippocrates

  Fashion, Mean, Science

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• And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

  John Ashbery

  Thinking, Pages, Turns

  John Ashbery (1981). “Shadow train: poems”, Viking Adult

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• Some days are better than others ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

  Brian Robertson

  Journey, Tunnels, Light

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• I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its own actions, its own communities, its own economies, before starting to integrate in large regional or global supranational organizations.

  David Korten

  Country, Communication, Responsibility

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• If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

  Nhat Hanh

  Kindness, Compassion, Speech

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Edition”, p.39, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspiration, Airplane, Jumping

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• I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

  Steve Case

  Business, Doors, Entrepreneur

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• We're starting with our own carbon footprint. Not nothing. But much of what we're doing is already, or soon will be, little more than the standard way of doing business. We can do something that's unique, different from just any other company. We can set an example, and we can reach our audiences. Our audience's carbon footprint is 10,000 times bigger than ours... That's the carbon footprint we want to conquer.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Encouragement, Business, Unique

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop.

  Russell Simmons

  Opportunity, Thinking, Race

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• My friends drink everywhere. They even drink at the laundromat. I tried drinking at the laundromat, and I thought I was in a submarine, navigating the Sea of White Panties with my Spanish-speaking crew. I was like, "Mrs. Sanchez, set the coordinates to Permanent Press! Give me some quarters and another drink! This place is starting to look like a laundromat."

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Real, Struggle

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• The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Country, Poverty, Social

  "Society: Governments must tackle record gap between rich and poor, says OECD". José Ángel Gurría's remarks during the launching of a new 2011 OECD report "Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising", www.oecd.org. December 5, 2011.

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