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• It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Views, Luck

  The Dalai Lama (2001). “Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists”, p.108, Shambhala

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• The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

  David Ogilvy

  Dollars, Advertising, Promotion

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• All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Life, Doe, Able

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• I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Mean, Thinking, Expression

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• Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process.

  Edward de Bono

  Simple, Thinking, Ideas

  The Use of Lateral Thinking foreword (1967)

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• Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

  Norman Mailer

  Affliction, Sauce, Flair

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel”, p.30, Random House

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• The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fun, Hippie, Offering

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, Afterword to the 10th anniversary edition, written in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1984.

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• With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" ? not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn.

  Thomas Sowell

  Home, Government, Order

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• Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, 'You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future - do advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier at all.

  Claude Monet

  Children, Giving Up, Wife

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• Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.

  Joseph Joubert

  Order, People, Profound

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• Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Female, Pedestal

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

  John Jay Chapman

  People, Society, Problem

  John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated

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• Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.

  Tony Blair

  Attitude, Loss, Opportunity

  "Tony Blair's Mansion House speech: full text". www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2005.

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• Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.

  David Hockney

  Simple, Thinking, Ipads

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• We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Energy, Use, Should

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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• Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's.

  Charles Ives

  Expression, Matter

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.19, 1st World Publishing

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• Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.

  Sidney Lumet

  Crazy, Mad, Insane

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• Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ego, Society, Individual

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.39, VM eBooks

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• When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms of gifts, donations, for Spiritual guidance and Transmission.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Support, Guidance

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• The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Thinking, Errors, Misled

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• When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Thinking, People, Everyday

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• But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

  Damien Hirst

  Photography, Taken, Light

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• I just do what everybody asks me to do, in terms of media and stuff.

  Damien Hirst

  Media, Stuff, Ask Me

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• I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for myself.

  Tracey Emin

  Failure, Artist, Way

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• A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an imitator of the works of other painters. This appears more humiliating, but is equally true; and no man can be an artist, whatever he may suppose, upon any other terms.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Artist, Men, May

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.150

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