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No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But… — Claude C. Hopkins
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near… — John Updike
As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our… — Alvin Lustig
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is… — Rollo May
Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the… — Johanna SigurÃ°ardottir
I'm a total pleasure seeker. I pursue anything that satisfies me. I usually get it. I have specific needs and I know what they are… — Lydia Lunch
It is a great thing to be at your age... You are at a very specific time of age ... an age where you can… — Christian Louboutin
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. — Stephen Covey
Before starting a fitness program or diet, know why you're doing it. Have specific goals with deadlines and visualize the end result each night before… — Robert Cheeke
Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance. — Robert Cheeke
To win in November, Republican candidates must show they are in touch with voter concerns about growth, jobs, paychecks, government spending and debt. The only… — Karl Rove
I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a… — Chuck Close
Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground,… — Seth Godin
There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking… — Jim Nussle
I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we… — Bo Gritz
You don't dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving… — David Lynch
Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not… — Asghar Farhadi
Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they… — Ralph Merkle
With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli. — Johannes Peter Muller

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