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"The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly." »Robert Wibbelsman
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"There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third." »Timothy Leary
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"The term "learning disability" has appeal because it implies a specific neurological condition for which no one can be held particularly responsible, and yet it escapes the stigma of mental retardation. There is no implication of neglect, emotional disturbance, or improper training or education, nor does it imply a lack of motivation on the part of the child. For these cosmetic reasons, it is a rather nice term to have around." »U. S. Government Study On The Labeling Of Children
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"A clever man commits no minor blunders." »Johann von Goethe
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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue." »Ambrose Bierce
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"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn
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"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn
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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." »Stephen Hawking
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"Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives." »Marilyn Ferguson
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"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures." »Vince Lombardi
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"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." »Stephen William Hawking
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"A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison." »Will Rogers
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"in regards to academic pursuits..."the short-term stress is worth a lifetime of success!"" »Jemille Smith
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"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection." »Charles Robert Darwin
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"Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning." »W. B. Yeats
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"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us." »David Sarnoff
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"It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'" »Bertrand Russell
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"The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high." »Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ralph Peters, Interview in American Heritage
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"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." »Sigmund Freud
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"Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause." »Mother Teresa, -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
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"What we won when all of our people united ... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years." »Graham Greene
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"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term." »Robert Reich
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"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true." »Carl Sagan
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""We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.”
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"minor surgery is surgery someone else is having." »J. Carl Cook
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