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• In a real fight, there ain't no time and you've got to use your wits. If someone were threatening the life of my child, then I'd be a good fighter. If somebody just wanted to steal my wallet, well, maybe I wouldn't worry about it so much.

  Hugo Weaving

  Children, Real, Fighting

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• Governments and politicians use the family as an indicator of the health and strength of social life. Politicians fear that any weakening of family life will in some way sap the vitality of national life.... The family is also important to businessmen. It is one of the major purchasing groups of our consumer society.

  Adrian Wilson

  Government, Important, Vitality

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• Better to use force when you should rather than when you must.

  George P. Bush

  Should, Force

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• With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Heart, Eye, Years

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.94, Random House

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• As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and resigning in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war, I firmly believe war does not resolve political issues.  We must work diligently to force the governments of our nations to use diplomacy, not weapons.

  Ann Wright

  War, Believe, Army

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• Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

  Jay Samit

  Discovery, Something New, Practicals

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

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• It is difficult to make good scalable use of a CPU like you can of a graphics card. You certainly don't want 'better or worse' physics or AI in your game

  John Carmack

  Games, Want, Cards

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• Warriors use their intent and will to shape their lives. All of their actions are conscious, intentional, and complete.

  Kerr Cuhulain

  Warrior, Shapes, Action

  Kerr Cuhulain (2000). “Wiccan Warrior: Walking a Spiritual Path in a Sometimes Hostile World”, p.4, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.

  Susan Mann

  Teacher, Assessment, Skills

  "The Global Search for Education: The Tech Report - From Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2015.

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• Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Land, Impact

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Today Secretary of State John Kerry visited the small African nation of Djibouti. Or to use the official diplomatic term, he made a Djibouti call.

  Conan O'Brien

  Today, States, Made

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• When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Doctors, Air

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.177

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• The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Lying, Real, Technology

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• But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

  Richard Pryor

  Animal, Punishment, Circus

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• Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

  Barry Eisler

  Book, Writing, Self

  "Barry Eisler Explains Self-Publishing Decision". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.thedailybeast.com. March 24, 2011.

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• I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

  Maya Angelou

  Good Life, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 04, 2012

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• Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Thinking, Agreement, Way

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• Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don't stop until you've filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don't need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends' accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspiration, Accomplishment, Envy

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• It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Long, Wells

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• You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.

  Paul Schrader

  Character, Thinking, Symbolism

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• I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.

  Hannibal

  Destiny, Fire, Rome

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• A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.

  David Byrne

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

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• Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

  Richard Harris

  Jesus, Swear, Swear Word

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

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• People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.

  Marissa Mayer

  People, Google, Geek

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• There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

  Mark Twain

  Home, Lakes, Sea

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2339, GENERAL PRESS

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