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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

• That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

  

  Michael Johnson
  • Change
  • Back
  • Breath

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Technology

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

  

  Ben Zimmer
  • Consciousness
  • Stream
  • Trajectory