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• I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment. ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Sexy, Commitment, Emotional

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• Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

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• It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Loss, Ideas, Information

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• A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.

  Erin Kelly

  Mother, Children, Important

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• We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Language, Feels

  Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates”, p.2, Verso

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• Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Powerful, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Your boss doesn't care what you know, because the Google machine knows everything. Your boss cares about what you can do with what you know. That's the only thing your boss will pay for.

  Thomas Friedman

  Boss, Google, Machines

  "Average Is Over. Abundance Is Not." by Robert E. Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Struggle, Home

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

  Rumi

  Kings, Shadow, Sun

  "Masnavi I Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí". Book edited by Edward Henry Whinfield. Book IV, Story IV: "Bayazid and his impious sayings when beside himself", 1898.

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• One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Struggle, Hero

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• I think work is the world's greatest fun.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Fun, Thinking, World

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• I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

  William Mapother

  Thought Provoking, Stories, Sci Fi

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• The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.

  William Gibson

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• Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.

  Art Buchwald

  Running, Tests, Doe

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• States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent to the extent that they're powerful, that's roughly accurate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Government

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, 1992.

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• We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

  Henry Cloud

  Success, Mistake, People

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• These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Government, Benefits, Pay

  "America’s public servants are now its masters". www.ft.com. September 10, 2010.

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• Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.

  Savitri Devi

  Real, Humble, Sight

  Savitri Devi (2010). “The Lightning and the Sun”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.

  Willard Gaylin

  Mother, Thinking, Want

  "Gattaca", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential position [in life].

  Sven Birkerts

  Blow, Self, Focus

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• Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Pockets, Want

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• May the trees continue to thrive and flourish on this earth, filling our hearts with joy and inspiration.

  Stephanie Kaza

  Inspiration, Heart, Tree

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• It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way.

  Stockard Channing

  Moving, Media, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Expression, Order

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.171, Seven Stories Press

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• It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.

  Spider Robinson

  Fun, Smart, Hard Work

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