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• Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

  Anita Roddick

  Life, Change, Past

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• We're told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Gay

  "People who see her on television think she's wonderful ... and then there are the people who have worked with her" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2007.

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• There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.

  Komla Dumor

  War, Stories, Disease

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• I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its not perfect circumstances, but Im definitely going to be out there and hopefully have my letdown after the Open ... I think Ill go in mentally a lot better. When it comes down to it I dont think anyone really wants to play me because I have a lot of weapons and not a ton of weaknesses. My main weakness would probably be an occasional self-destruction mode. So Ill try not to touch that red button accidentally.

  Venus Williams

  Summer, Tired, Thinking

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

  Jackson Pollock

  Glasses, Knives, Broken

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing what such a thing ought to look like. But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears, a scattered, partial, initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for, or which conveys a hint of it – although often enough I have been fooled by a momentary glimpse that then vanishes, leaving behind only the usual thing.

  Gerhard Richter

  Knowing, Long, Leaving

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this

  Damon Albarn

  Southern, Different, Labels

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• It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

  Martin Buber

  Thinking, Opposites, Two

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• As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?

  Kellie Pickler

  Emotional, Circles, Worry

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• We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.

  Eustace Mullins

  Running, Religious, War

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• Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Understanding, Life Is, Accepting

  Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now.

  Kofi Annan

  Goal, Development, Action

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• There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

  Robert Henri

  Moments, Clairvoyant, Greatest Wisdom

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Religious, Philosophy, Special

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• By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Victory, Towns

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• A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the obvious, and hence, the unspontaneous.  Rather, he should provide that quality of thought and intuition which rejects the ineffectual commonplace for effectual originality.

  Lester Beall

  Responsibility, Thinking, Giving

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• Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.

  Charlie Munger

  Practice, Investing, Sometimes

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• My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance.

  Ella Leya

  Keys, Blue, Hands

  Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.24, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like hers, a life of promiscuity, rootlessness, and substance abuse, resentment and fear tend to replace all reasonable and proper emotions, and the world becomes your enemy.

  J. Robert Lennon

  Fear, Taken, Enemy

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• Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Hate, Good Luck

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• Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Unique, Past, Thinking

  "Seven questions for Walter Russell Mead". The Economist Interview, www.economist.com. January 16, 2010.

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• Singularitarians are the munchkins of the real world. We just ignore all the usual dungeons and head straight for the cycle of infinite wish spells.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Real, Wish, Dungeons

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• In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Secret, Dupes, Body

  Dialogues des Morts Dialogue V

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• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  Angelina Jolie

  Scripts, Behavior, Humans

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• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Film, Reckoning

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