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You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.
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What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
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In the United States, the government has no business entering the marketplace of ideas to establish an arbiter of what is false, misleading, or a political smear.
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You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.
