Deal Quotes
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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.
Chogyam Trungpa
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It took a good deal of work behind the scenes to achieve this result and I'm glad we've got there.
Jack Straw
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Atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods.
The word “atheism” itself, however, simply means “without the gods,” and one could be “without” them while still acknowledging they existed.
...atheism applied more normally to “anyone who rejected or neglected the traditional modes of honoring the gods.”
That is to say, anyone who abjectly refused to participate in the worship of divine beings could be labeled an atheist.
Such a person could expect a good deal of opprobrium and sometimes civil action.
The Christians were often accused of being atheists.
Obviously that was not because they denied the divine realm but because they refused to acknowledge (and act as if) it was inhabited by more than the one being they worshiped and refused to interact with it in traditional ways.
Bart Ehrman
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To deal with the whole visual input at once, and make discriminations based on any combination of features in the field, would require too large a brain, or too much "previous experience" to be plausible.
Ulric Neisser
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You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
Bill Gates
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The more armed we are with information about the seduction of technology, the more we can build systems to better deal with it. I had no idea that I got a hit of dopamine, which is the pleasure hormone that also governs addiction, every time that little email bing goes off.
Brigid Schulte
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Dave LaChapelle talked me into it, ... I thought it was going to be no big deal, probably not too many people would see it. Then I was having a party during the Daytona 500, and it was the first commercial on it. I told my wife, 'Honey, I think I'm in trouble.'
Darius Rucker
Hootie & the Blowfish
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Leaders deal in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.
Saul Bellow
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It's a three-hour or deal, and actually a waste of time.
J. M. Roberts
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When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.
Allen Iverson
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Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.
Andy Hargreaves
