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You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.

-- Orson Scott Card

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

-- Thomas Carlyle

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be

-- Abraham Lincoln

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Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.

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None of you knows what creativity means. To paint a picture, to write a poem? No! To recast one's whole age, to impose upon it the stamp of one's will, to fill it with beauty, to overwhelm it, to overpower it with one's spirit.

-- Christian Morgenstern

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I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.

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War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

-- Bruce Jackson

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Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.

-- Donald Phillip Verene

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To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.

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Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.

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