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• A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • High
  • Man
  • Woman

• When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Team
  • Best

• Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.

  

  Paige Butcher
  • Waiting
  • Doing
  • Blessed

• Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Technology
  • Generation
  • Walk

• Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Riches
  • Precious

• Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing.

  

  Warren G
  • Long
  • Death
  • Doing

• As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Long
  • Working
  • I Can

• When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Money
  • Rich

• I have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers' problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Security

• MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Black
  • Running

• Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Fear
  • Government
  • Rights

• At first I thought it was infatuation. But woo, it's lasted so long. Now I find myself wanting to marry you and take you home. Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. You, you, you, you send meI know you send meI know you send me honest you do.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Marry
  • Infatuation
  • Take Home

• It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Modernization means Westernization.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Means
  • Modernization
  • Westernization

• American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Country
  • American
  • Missionary

• Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Brain

• If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • People
  • Bad

• School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we, we have important rules in school, always emphasizing the fact that one is part of a group.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Important
  • School
  • Learning

• Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.

  

  William Robertson Smith
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Religious

• I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Up

• I've always thought the prettiest smiles are the ones that show the most teeth.

  

  D. W. Wilson
  • Shows
  • Teeth
  • Prettiest

• Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere! nemo!Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.

  

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