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"No question is ever settled until it is settled right." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." »Maureen Dowd
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"A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"A life that is defended by excuses has become comfortable in defeat, it has settled for mediocrity and is destined for failure." »Oscar Bonga Nomvete
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"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled." »Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
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"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"Nothing ever gets settled in this town. ... a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer." »George Pratt Shultz
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"Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be." »William Shakespeare
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"All love, at first, like generous wine, Ferments and frets until ?tis fine; But when ?tis settled on the lee, And from th? impurer matter free, Becomes the richer still the older, And proves the pleasanter the colder." »Butler
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"It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled." »F. F. Bosworth
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"All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work." »Thomas J. Watson
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"Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life." »Germaine Greer
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"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life." »Germaine Greer
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"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." »Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
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"Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines." »Benoit Mandelbrot
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"It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World" »Alfred North Whitehead
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"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms." »Robert Heinlein
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