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294 quotes by 267 authors
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Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.
— John Irving
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Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency…
— Brené Brown
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Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out…
— Lev Grossman
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Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and…
— Oliver Sacks
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I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there…
— Winston Churchill
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And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town." "You mean they aren't powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed.
— Michael Grant
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
— Isaac Marion
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Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will…
— A.S.A. Harrison
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Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.
— Mark Twain
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Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously…
— Dan Millman
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Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake.…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to others. The person…
— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into…
— Dana Schutz
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Football can generate excitement and bring people together.
— Didier Drogba
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While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.
— John Gerzema
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Cisco never had a red quarter. Never. Took us three years to get funding, and in those three years, we were never in the red,…
— Sandra Lerner
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer…
— Adam Davidson
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You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.
— Twyla Tharp
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We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to…
— Vladimir Putin
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Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next…
— Alex Steffen
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