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Donald Trump speaks extemporaneously, often through stream of consciousness, where it doesn't seem to follow a trajectory.

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• I'm just basically a workaholic.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Just
  • Basically
  • Workaholic

• If you come out of the gate with a finger pointed, then you really aren't opening the door to any sort of resolution to whatever the problem may be. Whether it's about race or sexual orientation or religion, if you can't empathize with the opposing party, then you can't really meet in the middle.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • May
  • Party
  • Problem

• You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • People
  • Know
  • Leader

• The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Reason

• Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Past
  • Control
  • Present

• Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Hard Work

• Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Window
  • Mirrors
  • Unhappiness

• While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Commitment
  • Profound
  • Rejection

• Control your life through insanity.

  

  Cliff Burton Metallica
  • Life
  • Control
  • Insanity

• It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt
  • Object

• To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Escape
  • Holy

• I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Sex
  • Games
  • Generation

• How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Pieces
  • Potential
  • Whole

• Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Consciousness

• I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Different
  • Day
  • Survival

• Donald Trump speaks extemporaneously, often through stream of consciousness, where it doesn't seem to follow a trajectory.

  

  Ben Zimmer
  • Consciousness
  • Stream
  • Trajectory