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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
Max Weber
Administration
Bureaucratic
Continuity
Costs
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.
Max Weber
Age
Analysis
Consider
Cultural
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It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Mick Jagger
Back
Get
Go
Letting
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The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.
Mick Jagger
Elusive
Fleeting
Gone
Just
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The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
Mae Jemison
Between
Coin
Continuum
Creativity
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden
Destiny
Changes
Thought
Become
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What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.
Francis of Assisi
Could
Man
Owns
Nothing
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All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.
Francis of Assisi
Separates
Unites
Others
Giving
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine
Attained
Contradictory
Experience
Find
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Augustine
Chastity
Give
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I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.
Dwayne Johnson
Bar
Break
Envelope
Ground
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But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.
Dwayne Johnson
Believe
Exciting
Given
Going
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But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.
Dwayne Johnson
Always
Atlanta
Being
Best
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With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!
Dwayne Johnson
With
Action
Films
Great
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The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.
Dwayne Johnson
Actor
Also
Always
Career
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Francis Chan
Designed
God
Knew
Who
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It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.
Fulton J. Sheen
Impossible
Lose
Your
Footing
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
Fulton J. Sheen
Our
Happiest
Times
Those
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The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.
Fulton J. Sheen
Greatest
The
Love
Tiny
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Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.
Fulton J. Sheen
Help
Distress
Lighten
Own
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau
Ahead
Behind
Compared
Lies
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It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.
Orhan Pamuk
Happen
First
Instant
But
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau
Consumes
Fatal
Getting
Greater
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If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.
Orhan Pamuk
If
We
Give
Treasure
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.
Orhan Pamuk
Painting
Silence
Thought
Music
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As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Henry Van Dyke
Dictate
Dimensions
Emerge
Habit
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In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.
Fulton J. Sheen
Every
Friendship
Hearts
Themselves
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Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.
Fulton J. Sheen
Advertising
Tries
Stimulate
Sensuous
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
Fulton J. Sheen
Destined
More
Nothing
Deep-seated
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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen
Begins
Bites
Chew
Cutting
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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life
Matters
What
Life
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Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.
Orson Welles
Working
Part
Life
Know
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
Pat Conroy
Been
Me
Never
Simple
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
Pat Conroy
About
Anything
Anything Else
Else
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The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.
Patrick Dempsey
Worst
Part
About
Married
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
Pat Conroy
Course
Fascinated
God
Grew
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
Patrick Dempsey
Play
Golden
Pond
I
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
Patrick Dempsey
Drama
Easier
Do
Because
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Orson Welles
Eating
Hate
Much
Peanuts
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
Orson Welles
Because
Been
Cave
Civilization
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd
Architect
Bar
Board
Drafting
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'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd
Back
First
Getting
Master
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd
Architect
Beauty
Carefully
Comfort
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The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words
Patrick Dempsey
Key
Successful
Marriage
Accepting
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Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don’t. Not all people are going to like you.
Patrick Dempsey
Fame
Fleeting
Sometimes
People
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Oswald Chambers
Done
Getting
Knowing
Leave
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
Hermann Hesse
Age
Brief
Days
Encounters
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
Choice
Ecstasy
Even
Feet
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck
Anyone
Battlefield
Before
Dying
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
Holding
Letting
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Some
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