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The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal,… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time. — Henry Ford
I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences. — Irving Kristol
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic. — Peter Drucker
I think people talk too much; that's the truth of the matter. I do. I don't believe in words. People use too many words and… — Michelangelo Antonioni
Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital… — Gaston Bachelard
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an… — Thomas Merton
After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,… — Thomas Merton
Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world… — Thomas Merton
A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our… — Wes Jackson
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose. — Randall Jarrell
If the blonds and blue-eyed people die out, the human race will become increasingly dense ... Blond hair actually bestows intelligence. In the case of… — Rudolf Steiner
Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care *most* about, but it's really the melody… — Joe Satriani
Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans. — R. H. Tawney
The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what… — David O. Russell
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable — Barbara Mikulski
You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for. — Barbara Mikulski
Why isnâ€™t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy… — Tony Abbott
The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene… — Nick Rahall

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