Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch
Recitation: by Male by Female
Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is not an issue. Similarly, to build a new company, you must manage scarce resources.
Joe Lonsdale
ArtBridgeEngineeringDesignYou
Universal background checks work. You keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That shouldn't be partisan - that should be something we can all agree to, but it became this huge battle and, you know, really, really a challenge.
John Hickenlooper
WorkChallengePeopleBattleHands
The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.
Michael Badnarik
FreedomGovernmentSupportStrong
We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.
Amy Goodman
ProtectAllowedJobsJournalists
There's always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.
Stephen Mangan
VisionGreatReadingAnxietyYou
Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.
Stacy Schiff
ImaginationYourselfToleranceLose
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
Tony Judt
WordsI CanOverMasterIllness
The Oriental thinks everything in the sense-perceptible world is 'maya'; everything perceived by our senses and all thinking connected with sense perceptions is 'maya,' the great illusion. The only reality is the reality of the soul. What a human being achieves in his or her soul is reality.
Rudolf Steiner
GreatSoulWorldThinkingReality
Everybody has many people inside of them. I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want.
Rupert Friend
AcceptancePeopleThinkPresentFeel
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.
Michael Scheuer
CommunityGreatIntelligenceAmerican
Playing at Real Madrid is something special in itself, but winning trophies with Real Madrid is even more thrilling.
Luka Modric
WinningSpecialMoreRealSomething
I barely get any time for myself.
Divyanka Tripathi
TimeMyselfGetAnyBarely
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