#any

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer. ↗

— Brian Eno

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No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. ↗

— Epictetus

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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. ↗

— Brian Eno

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Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service. ↗

— Julian Bond

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You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

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I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person. ↗

— Enya

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With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie. ↗

— Nora Ephron

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I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals. ↗

— James Ellroy

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I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference. ↗

— John Engler

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All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others. ↗

— John Engler

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