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Sir Richard sighed. "Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person," he said. "I imagine I… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
When you're researching things that have happened, the clear narrative arc is not there already. This is the problem of writing nonfiction… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is the problem of unpaid labor, such as housework, which represents millions and millions of unsalaried work hours and on which… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
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I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
The demon's eyes flicked to mine, his smile widening. "This is Nicholas Gregory Sparagmos's room," he said, and my breath caught. "Delightful,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
There is a difficult transition in management from being the knowledgeable expert and the problem solver to becoming a process architect. The… — Yves Doz Copy Share Image
Commit to growing yourself. Do not avoid problems and or complain about problems. Don't let them bother you. In fact, don't even… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst… — John McCain Copy Share Image
In order to get inside their skin, I have to identify with them. That includes even the ones who are complete bastards,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Sports became a way for me to find my personality and identity in life. I had a lot of problems as a… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray?… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I have been fascinated by predictability and frustrated by our inability to predict. I don't believe it makes sense… — Lennart Bengtsson Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing that can happen to us, I think, is to permit a feeling to develop that any client is… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known. This problem… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
Whenever problems seem to get the best of me, whenever I feel them closing in on me, I go to a quiet… — John Harricharan Copy Share Image
Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved.… — Max McKeown Copy Share Image
When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
The problem for most people as they get older is that they start to buy into their own bullshit to the extent… — The Edge Copy Share Image
Most business leaders don't consider their own causality in the creation of problems. They fail to see that their company could have… — James A. Champy Copy Share Image
Dallas Willard warns us too of the "cost of non-discipleship." We may be able to live with some pain, but when our… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
We have seen that [Zika virus] has caused, and is causing, a whole series of problems for pregnant women and for their… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
My father was very political. But he told me, "Be very careful when you get into politics, because there's no black and… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
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Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image