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- When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
- To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even…
- "When are we going to get going?" Chris says. "What's your hurry?" I ask. "I just want to get going." "There's nothing up ahead that's…
- Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think…
- We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....
- It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel,…
- You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.
- Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated,…
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