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• The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

  Samuel Smiles

  Lasts, Influential, Virtue

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.2

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• Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

  Umberto Eco

  Country, Communication, Army

  "Il costume di casa" (1973); as translated in "Travels in Hyperreality" (1986),

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• Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

  Frank Herbert

  Trying, Radical, Offers

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.31, Penguin

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• Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

  Federico Fellini

  Dream, Real, Mean

  Rolling Stone, No. 421, 1984.

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• With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.

  Kingsley Amis

  Thinking, Fiction, Literature

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• Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Hands, Feet

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “The Interior Castle (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

  Austin O'Malley

  Car, Religion, Way

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• Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.

  Livy

  Humble, Arrogant, Crowds

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXIV, section 25,

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• Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.

  Hank Aaron

  Louisville, Records, Way

  Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.

  Campbell McGrath

  Land, Perfect, Lines

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• I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.

  Philip Yancey

  Divorce, Simple, Opposites

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

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• The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.

  George Henry Lewes

  Artist, Phrases, Suggestions

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.

  Nas

  Land, Example, Stories

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Steve Jobs doesn't use a Mac, and won't, because it's too crappy in his opinion.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Opinion, Macs

  Interview with Dave Mark, www.mactech.com. May 1998.

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• In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He replied, "How many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" I thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "Four." He said, "I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." With that, the conversation was over.

  Freeman Dyson

  Cutting, Agreement, Elephants

  "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson, www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.

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• The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Artist, Discovery, Made

  "Renoir - his life and work" by Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates/ Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, (p. 178), 1975.

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• We can use laws to prosecute and make people think twice before going to do something like blowing up Buddhas and other things.

  Robert M. Edsel

  Thinking, Law, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I equate freedom and peace. And I believe America, given its position in the world, must use our power to promote freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, America, World

  Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• I don't mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that's fine and that's fair game. But, you know, I don't think we're serving our nation well by allowing the discourse to become so uncivil that people use words that they shouldn't be using.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Games, People

  "An Exclusive Interview With President Bush". Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2003.

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• He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message in his songs. That's why he and [Bob] Dylan bonded so much, because they were both trying to do something meaningful.

  Robert Hilburn

  Meaningful, Song, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

  Steve Jobs

  Artist, Technology, Apples

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Hands, Accountability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.

  Channing Tatum

  Fighting, Rings, Knows

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I always think of shade as being full of light. That is why I like to use the word shade rather than light and shadow. Shade seems to play over the thing, envelop it, better define it, while shadow seems to fall on the thing and stain the surface with darks.

  John French Sloan

  Fall, Thinking, Light

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• If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.

  Morgan Freeman

  Focus, Trying, Causes

  "Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen Talk THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, and Turning SIDEWAYS Into a Play". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 4, 2012.

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