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Image of Alan Greenspan
I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
- Alan Greenspan
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Image of John Green
How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.
- John Green
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Image of Bill Gates
Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.
- Bill Gates
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Image of Sue Grafton
Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there.
- Sue Grafton
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Image of Sue Grafton
Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.
- Sue Grafton
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Image of Stephen Fry
You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.
- Stephen Fry
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Image of R. Buckminster Fuller
Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Image of John Green
Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.
- John Green
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Image of John Green
But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.
- John Green
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Image of John Green
Her hair is ridiculous," I said. "I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.
- John Green
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Image of Chinua Achebe
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
- Chinua Achebe
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Image of Morgan Freeman
Acting means living, it's all I do.
- Morgan Freeman
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Image of James Frey
Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.
- James Frey
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Image of James Frey
The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.
- James Frey
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Image of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engaged the industry and wisdom of ancient and modern geometers to such an extent that it would be superfluous to discuss the problem at length. ... Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Image of Dan Ariely
The people that lend you money basically give you an answer based on the risk that they are willing to take. But just because a bank is willing to take a particular risk doesn't mean that that is the right amount for me to spend.
- Dan Ariely
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Image of Elizabeth Gaskell
And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
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Image of Selena Gomez
You have to treat people the way you want to be treated, because ultimately, you're not gonna get anywhere if you're just mean to people.
- Selena Gomez
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Image of Seth Godin
The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.
- Seth Godin
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Image of Seth Godin
Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.
- Seth Godin
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Image of Jean-Luc Godard
Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)
- Jean-Luc Godard
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Image of Seth Godin
Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.
- Seth Godin
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Image of Elizabeth Gilbert
Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
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Image of Barry Goldwater
We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
- Barry Goldwater
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Image of Chris Oyakhilome
Excellence means that you're prospering spiritually, mentally, physically and in every area of life. What does it mean to prosper? It means to do well, to have over and above, to walk in a high level with God. It means to be in a high class with God, where you can think like God and live like Him.
- Chris Oyakhilome
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Image of Kathie Lee Gifford
Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I'm shallow.
- Kathie Lee Gifford
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Image of John Glenn
On K-12 education America has gone down, down, down compared to the other nations. It doesn't mean that we have gotten dumber. It just means that we have not advanced as fast in those areas as other nations have done, and we're way down right now.
- John Glenn
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Image of Milton Friedman
What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only entities which can have responsibilities are people.
- Milton Friedman
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Image of Milton Friedman
Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.
- Milton Friedman
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Image of Neil Gaiman
You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like it.
- Neil Gaiman
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Image of Rudy Giuliani
I don't think a woman [Hillary Clinton] who has revealed numerous classified information, doesn't know that the letter "C" means confidential.
- Rudy Giuliani
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Image of Pope Francis
Only we big sinners have this grace of knowing what salvation really means.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Pope Francis
Nurturing and cherishing creation is a command God gives not only at the beginning of history, but to each of us. It is part of his plan; it means causing the world to grow responsibly, transforming it so that it may be a garden, a habitable place for everyone.
- Pope Francis
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Image of Al Gore
There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far - quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it.
- Al Gore
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Image of Seth Godin
The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
- Seth Godin
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Che Guevara
Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.
- Che Guevara
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Image of Milton Friedman
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.
- Milton Friedman
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Image of Chris Oyakhilome
To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you!
- Chris Oyakhilome
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Image of Paul Gauguin
Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.
- Paul Gauguin
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Image of Karen Walker
The main thing [of social media] is it allows us to speak directly with our fans and customers, getting that immediate feedback, that conversation; that's what I love. It means that no matter what we are saying, if it's big or small we have a way of saying it. People connect with that.
- Karen Walker
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Image of Sigmund Freud
One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
- Sigmund Freud
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Image of Barry Goldwater
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.
- Barry Goldwater
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Image of John Green
"Why are breakfast food breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?" "Hazel, eat." "But why?" I asked. "I mean seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich."
- John Green
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Neil Gaiman
Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.
- Neil Gaiman
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Image of Aristotle
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.
- Aristotle
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Image of Pope Francis
Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.
- Pope Francis
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