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• Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Astrology, Branches, Ill

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1991). “The Astrology of the Four Horsemen: How You Can Heal Yourself and Planet Earth”, p.35, Summit University Press

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• Partial repetitions is another technique that I used -- sparingly. I was always a fan of doing full repetitions on every set. However, at the very end of a set where you cannot do any more, and especially if you don't have a training partner, the partial repetitions are good for eking out a little bit more out of the exercise.

  Lee Labrada

  Exercise, Training, Technique

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• I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment!

  Gail Carson Levine

  Fun, Book, Reading

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• Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

  Jonathan Alter

  Character, Fundraising, Presidential

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• Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

  Reinhard Bendix

  Evil, Quality, Moral

  Reinhard Bendix (1989). “Embattled Reason: Essays on Social Knowledge”, p.187, Transaction Publishers

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• Karma is the record of services. Karma is the term used in Buddhist teaching. Taoists use the term te. Christians us the term "deed." Many other spiritual beings use the term "virtue." Karma, te, deed, and virtue are the same thing but in different words. To understand karma is to understand all of these words.

  Zhi Gang Sha

  Karma, Christian, Spiritual

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• When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force, brutal force, he eliminated all the other scripts. One script became the official script. All the others were banned. And those who used other scripts were punished severely. And then the meanings of all the characters, over the centuries, had to be kept uniform as a part of the political apparatus. So from the very beginning the written word was a powerful political tool.

  Ha Jin

  Country, Powerful, Character

  "Ha Jin, The Art of Fiction No. 202". Interview with Sarah Fay, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.

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• Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way it is used practically and thought of symbolically.

  Michael Freeman

  Color, Yellow, Way

  Michael Freeman (2013). “The Colour Photography Field Guide: The Essential Guide to Hue for Striking Digital Images”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Country, Past, Rich Countries

  Ha-Joon Chang (2008). “Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity”, p.61, Random House

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• As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Technology, Hair, Korea

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.

  Dhani Jones

  Sports, Football, Book

  "Bengals LB Jones proves to be a true Renaissance man". Interview with Michael Fabiano, www.nfl.com. May 17, 2011.

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• When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.

  Ward Cunningham

  Frustrated, Different, Computer

  "Startup mines for riches in collaboration software". The Portland Tribune, March 4, 2008.

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• Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

  John Carroll

  Passion, Mean, Expression

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.30, Taylor & Francis

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• I used to think that my career was to be a police officer, and that is what I was put here to do. But I always kept the faith and always worked hard on my goals and I finally found out on Sept. 25, 1998, why I was put here - (God) called me here to be Mr. Olympia.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Thinking, Careers, Goal

  "Living his dream". The News-Star, May 17, 2003.

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• ...there are still truths in the Bible and many other ancient texts despite what religions have done to destroy and debase them. Religious dogma and myth have been used very successfully either to suppress understanding or to twist the truth sufficiently to turn something positive into something negative.

  David Icke

  Religious, Understanding, Twists

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• Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.

  Al Alvarez

  Self, Media, Psychics

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.274, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you're able to entertain people, you're doing a good thing.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Bridges, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Mean, Blow, Order

  Le Monde, 2005.

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• In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it, the term "libertarian" has been used instead. It may be the answer; but for my part I find it singularly unattractive. For my taste it carries too much the flavor of a manufactured term and of a substitute. What I should want is a word which describes the party of life, the party that favors free growth and spontaneous evolution. But I have racked my brain unsuccessfully to find a descriptive term which commends itself.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Party, Growth, Brain

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

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• Consumers are realizing the benefits of in-car entertainment and navigation systems. When used properly, these products are great tools that help drivers focus on the road. Consumers need to remember to follow state laws, watch the road and use common sense when putting these and other products to work.

  Gary Shapiro

  Law, Car, Common Sense

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• History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Bovine, Pastures, Wells

  "The Price of the Head". "Instauration" Magazine, March 1980.

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• Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.

  Gene Sharp

  Military, Mean, Power

  "The Politics of Nonviolent Action". Book by Gene Sharp, 1973.

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• This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.

  Laura Antoniou

  Sex, Drama, People

  "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up (puckerup.com), Issue 1, p. 12, Winter 1995.

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• The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies.

  James Berardinelli

  Stars, Struggle, Angel

  "Angels & Demons (United States, 2009)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2009.

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• There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.

  Joey Comeau

  Loneliness, Drinking, Romance

  Interview with Adrian Comeau, "I Am Other People" series, www.asofterworld.com.

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