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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Defeated Greater Life Purpose
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If I write a tune and people think it's nice, then that's fine by me, but I hate having to compete and promote the thing. I really don't like promotion.

Compete Fine Hate Having
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A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

Battery Cell Cells Challenge
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Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

Arriving Chained Chains Free
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Talk is cheap, but when you go out there and prove it - you're the first one to show up for practice, and you're the last to leave - that's how you lead by example.

Cheap Example First First One
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I'm encouraged by what I see of men trying to be there for their children.

Children Encouraged I See Men
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Baby steps count, too, as long as you're moving forward.

Baby Count Forward Long
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Big Billion Design Efficiency
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Many have forged a path to greatness lit only by a vision in their minds.

Forged Greatness Lit Many
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If you're having a hard time recognizing your gifts, look to someone else you know who's been resourceful. You may be surprised by how your own strengths rise to the surface by watching someone else.

Been Else Gifts Hard
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Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

Acknowledge Aside Because Believe
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Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

Always Apart Behind Consider
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Ask Certainty Deed Done
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Compare Each Expect Experience
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Does Done Forward Important
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Brought Done Great Great Things
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Accident Belief Born Find
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Our Punished Sins Them
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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Away Beautiful Block Elimination
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The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

Another Another Way Come Death
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You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
God Life Made Make
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The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

God Only Other People
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China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women... The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, souls first and foremost in everything and at every time - even life itself must be secondary.

China Christ Even Every
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Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Alone Cheer Each Help
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Business Editor Employed Newspaper
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The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Days Doing Done Fast
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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Being Come Despair Given
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We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Beyond Despair Doing Else
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Now the only way you can serve God on earth is by serving others.

Earth God Now Only
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Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

About Acting By The Time Culture
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Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Bring Changing Changing The World Life
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Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.

Christ Christianity Thoughts-for-the-quiet-hour Understanding
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Deadlines Fly Like Love
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You know what, I'm very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I'm just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Anyone Attracted Charmed Charming
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I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.

Really Nervous Intimidated Whole
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

Answer Asking Many Meaning
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I didn't really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the '70s - the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.

Really Mentor Have Always
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Bizarre Disappear Universe Discovers
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
All The Difference Difference Less Made
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Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye
Goodbye Letting-go
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I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

Born-again Humbles Life Mermaid
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Boss Day Eight Eventually
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Life Poetry Taking Throat
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Against Beginners Business Market
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I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

About Am Baby Casting
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G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.

Any Asking College College Kids
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Acquiesce Consent Control Deployed
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Great Performed Perseverance Strength
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If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Counted Forgiving Get Had
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If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.

Accumulate Break Caught Financial
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