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Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

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• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Space

• The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Trade
  • Contract
  • Lens

• But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Yourself

• Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Wealth
  • Research

• Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Couple
  • Court

• I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Support
  • Vote

• Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Physical

• I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Love
  • History
  • Career

• I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Lucky

• There is always safety in valor.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Always
  • Safety
  • Valor

• I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Often
  • Manager
  • Club

• Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Trust

• Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Violence
  • After
  • Ended

• Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Me

• I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Music
  • Gentle
  • Gorgeous

• We had 45 lakh cases pending from 2003–2004, to which 65 lakh new cases were added, making it more than one crore pending cases. After our initiatives, there are only 20 lakh pending court cases. Now my target is that by 2010, when Gujarat will complete 50 years, we will make it no-pendency. Cases will be disposed of in the very year they are filed.

  

  Narendra Modi

• At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Spiritual communities
  • Spiritual encounter
  • Spiritual fads

• I'm never going to stop making theatre, but I don't think I'll make it as much, because I don't need to. There are other things I want to do with my life. I want to sit by the sea in Yorkshire and eat Eccles cakes and spend time with my family.

  

  John Tiffany
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a point where if we don't get busy on dreams of this sort, our end is in sight. We need a world that is as good for human beings as it is for technology.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Technology

• Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Disharmony

• Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

  

  Black Hawk
  • Way
  • Hero
  • Asks

• Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

  

  John Dos Passos