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9025 Actually quotes by 5270 unique authors
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Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into…
— Mike Mentzer
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When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically.…
— Ian Thorpe
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Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.
— Meryl Streep
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You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.
— Alexander Turney Stewart
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One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I…
— Paulo Freire
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If a president can change some laws, can he change ALL laws? Can he change election laws? Can he change discrimination laws? Are there any…
— Trey Gowdy
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After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific…
— Andy Grove
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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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I never thought I'd play soccer past high school, so to go from that team to actually being most-capped and three World Cups is pretty…
— Cobi Jones
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.
— Ezra Pound
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Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of…
— Geoff Mulgan
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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.
— Joe E. Lewis
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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.…
— Robertson Davies
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Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were…
— Aberjhani
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A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come…
— Quintilian
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They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.
— Darren McCarty
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We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation…
— Unknown Author
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Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens…
— Gabe Jennings
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I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I…
— Jimmy Swaggart
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There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or…
— George S. Patton
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So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will)…
— John Green
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Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were free of it." An alcoholic's…
— Seth Roberts
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From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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