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• Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.

  Thomas Berry

  Wall, Integrity, Faithful

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• Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

  Carl Jung

  Taken, Science, Perfect

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• The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Spring, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.

  Henry Fairfield Osborn

  Speed, Mechanism

  Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921). “Collected papers”

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• If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

  Charles Adams

  Book, Writing, Addiction

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• Yes, I am so free. And what a superb absence is my soul.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soul, Absence, My Soul

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes, Act 1, 1943.

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• Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.

  Gordon Brown

  Daughter, Moving, Feelings

  "'This will be a big change in my life .. politics is now less important' says new dad Gordon Brown" by Colin Wills, Sunday Mirror, December 30, 2001.

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• A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples,throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Europe, Pineapples, Cotton

  "A Treatise On Political Economy". Book by Jean-Baptiste Say. Translated from the Fourth Edition of the French by C.R. Prinsep, M.A. With Notes by the Translator. (Sixth American Edition), Chapter VI, p. 323, 1832.

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• Ronald Reagan makes me proud to be an American. His intelligence, capability, and Christian brotherhood are so inspiring and his way of leadership is just superb. I consider myself lucky to have been his leading lady in "The Bad Man" and a short subject reel and as a nation all together we are beyond fortunate to have the leadership of such fine people as the Reagan's.

  Laraine Day

  Christian, Men, People

  "A Conversaton with Laraine Day, Hollywood's Girl Next Door". The New York Times Interview, June 9, 1984.

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• The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.

  Erich von Manstein

  Military, Army, Men

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• Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries - seems to have swallowed the distortions about domestic violence promoted by extreme, manhating feminism through the vehicle of deeply dodgy 'research'.

  Melanie Phillips

  Lying, Hate, Men

  "Demenised!". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 13, 2003.

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• I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Party, Thinking

  "39th U.S. President President Jimmy Carter". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

  Immanuel Kant

  Sublime, Melancholy

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• Your goal in life should be to enjoy the highest levels of health and energy possible. This requires that you eat the right foods and fewer of them. It requires you to get regular exercise and move every joint of your body daily. To enjoy superb physical health, you must get lots of rest and recreation. Above all, you maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.

  Brian Tracy

  Attitude, Moving, Exercise

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• A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Nature, Flower, Toads

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• The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Country, Passion, Heart

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America: With Fifty Splendid Engravings”, p.138

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• Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

  Stephen Covey

  Winning, Two, Enemy

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• A superb and dreadfully moving account of the glory and subsequent murder by the Romanians of the Jewish city in Odessa. . . . Odessa is both celebration and lament and equally impressive as both.

  Harold Bloom

  Moving, Cities, Odessa

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• I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

  John Banville

  Teenager, Reading, Artist

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• The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining.

  David Zippel

  Perfect, Gentleman, Entertaining

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• Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.

  Eddie Harris

  Play, Feelings, Looking Forward

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• A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000 tides had come and gone and little remains visible of the greatest military landing in man's history of endless warring. What's to be seen is mostly in a superb museum and a panoramic cemetery. The cemetery memorializes with dignity and grandeur the event and the dead, and moves one deeply. Before they die less precipitously and/or in lesser purpose, Americans who can should visit World War II's Normandy Beach. Such seeing and remembering helps a man's perspective.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Beach, Military, War

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• One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

  Perry Brass

  Technology, May, Painting

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.30, Perry Brass

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• It's a simplification to say that the men [during Stone Age] went to war to maintain their dominance over the women. The men would help dig agricultural ditches because they were superb farmers. That was very heavy lifting work. But then they just preened themselves, and put bird-of-paradise plumes [in their hair], and smoked dope.

  Peter Matthiessen

  War, Dope, Men

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Jobs, Military, Marine

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