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929 quotes by 811 authors
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
— David Foster Wallace
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I had over-trained. I put too much pressure on myself because I wanted that gold medal too much. If I had trained 15 per cent…
— Hicham El Guerrouj
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The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.
— Joseph J. Romm
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent,…
— Samuel Morse
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The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique…
— Franz Stampfl
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...I think of improvising as composing - fo me it's all about playing melodies. When I improvise, there's not a lot of real thinking going…
— Robben Ford
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I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.
— Greg Walden
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In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want…
— Jeff Bezos
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We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are…
— Amanda Ripley
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During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang…
— Vladimir Lenin
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American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since…
— Michael Pollan
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Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent.
— Kevin Keegan
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Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.
— Michael Haneke
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The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change…
— Tony Abbott
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The remission to Abu Bakar Bashir is not a reflection on the individual per se rather than the application of the remission program, which is…
— Marty Natalegawa
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My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well
— Marc Anthony
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Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee…
— Brian Tracy
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When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue…
— Arthur Koestler
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