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• Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Reality, Thinking, Opposites

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• But coming to terms with one’s sorrow is one thing; sharing it with strangers is quite another.

  Marie Brennan

  Sorrow, Stranger, One Thing

  Marie Brennan (2013). “A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent”, p.322, Macmillan

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• I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Beautiful, Hate, Gay

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• Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

  Thomas Sowell

  Law, Principles, Return

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.109, Basic Books

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• One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.

  Jay Rockefeller

  Thinking, America, Years

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• Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Long, People, Happens

  "Online Extra: A Talk with Pierre Omidyar". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

  Janet Yellen

  Long, Unemployment, Economy

  "A Painfully Slow Recovery for America's Workers: Causes, Implications, and the Federal Reserve's Response" by Janet L. Yellen, www.federalreserve.gov. February 11, 2013.

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• What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.

  Tony Hsieh

  Long, Culture, Way

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.

  Benjamin Mkapa

  Ideas, Decision, Brotherhood

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• We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

  Vandana Shiva

  Rights, People, Three

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• Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.

  Jim Nussle

  Ifs And, Growing, Economy

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• Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Thinking, Magic Realism, Age

  "Salman Rushdie Talks with Terry Gilliam". www.believermag.com. March 2003.

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• In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Integrity, Long, Favors

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• You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Workout, Tired, Games

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• I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.

  Francois Hollande

  Mistake, Giving, Waiting

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• In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely.

  Naomi Klein

  Rocks, Challenges, Earth

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

  Daley Thompson

  Kids, Years, People

  Interview with Tom Bryant, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2008.

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• In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.

  Dom Starsia

  Games, Coming Out, Scouting

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• My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

  Janet Reno

  America, Effort, Community

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• The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.

  Janet Reno

  President, Should, Investigation

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• If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?

  Peter Thiel

  Focus, Missing, Growth

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.39, Crown Business

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• One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

  Ken Adam

  Reality, Thinking, Trying

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• I don't like the term 'voice-over.

  Lucille Bliss

  Voice, Voice Over

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• I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

  Pat Bowlen

  Memories, Loss, Fading

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• I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Ensemble, Bland

  Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. November 7, 2012.

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