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• Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Attention
  • Relationships

• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Words
  • Nothing

• When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Learn
  • Show
  • Two

• You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Seek
  • Satisfy
  • Objective

• Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Attention

• I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That's how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading.

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Technology

• I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.

  

  Emily Giffin

• Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.

  

  John Carter
  • Political
  • Party
  • Red

• We are aware that many national farm organizations are putting forth various plans to provide both short- and long-term relief to our nation's agricultural producers. While we believe long-term solutions are essential, the current situation demands a more immediate response.

  

  Mel Carnahan
  • Believe
  • Long

• scathing indictment of the climate and leadership to permit sexual harassment to permeate all levels of the Army.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Leadership
  • Army
  • Climate

• Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Body
  • Unity
  • Benefits

• All of our dreams can come true...

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Dreams

• Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Enough
  • Individual
  • Social Change

• It's just working people one by one, one at a time.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Time

• It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Facts

• Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone, do I reach the happiness of freedom, to which no worldlings attain. If you have not put an end to compulsions, nurse your faith.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Freedom
  • Faith
  • Learning

• There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • Fire
  • Fingers

• How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life-in short, without you, my life is no life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Work
  • Passion

• ...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden commitment to say nothing and do nothing that would attack the self-esteem, the self-respect, and the dignity of any other human being, whether or not they are committed members of the kingdom of God. The dignity of the person then is the irreducible cell of true Christianity.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Invisible
  • Collection
  • Kingdom Of God

• You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.

  

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  • Fingers
  • Bath
  • Vocals