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"I am not a role model." »Mike Tyson
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"Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion." »Margaret Cho, weblog, 05-04-04
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"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role." »William Torrey Harris
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"The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful." »Steve Jobs
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"People can have the model T in any colour--so long as it's black." »Henry Ford
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"Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination do not become the slave of your model." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant." »Manfred Eigen
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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God-but to create him." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"The mind cannot long act the role of the heart." »La Rochefoucauld
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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in a cage?" »Pink Floyd, song "Wish You Were Here"
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"AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them." »Susan Sontag
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"People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place." »Irving Kristol
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"The distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a model T and the space shuttle. And I should know I've seen both." »Ronald Reagan
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"Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play." »Eric Hoffer
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"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." »George Washington
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"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." »George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
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"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." »Noam Chomsky
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here." »J Danforth Quayle
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"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money." »A. J. Liebling
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"We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide." »Nathan M. Pusey
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"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work." »John Von Neumann
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"A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means." »Eugene E. Brussell
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"The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society." »Shirley Mount Hufstedler
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"The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future." »Hillary Rodham Clinton
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"I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman." »Sandra Cisneros
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"Yes, I have cherished my "demagogue" role. I know that societies often have killed the people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having bought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help to destroy the racist cancer that is maligant in the body of America - then, all of the credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine." »"Malcom X" ( 1964), The Atobiograghy of Malcom X
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"When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities." »Tom Robbins
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