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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels. ↗

— Kathleen Kenyon

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Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

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You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. ↗

— William Shatner

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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests. ↗

— Chester Irving Barnard

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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. ↗

— Saint Basil

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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. ↗

— Kate Chopin

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The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give. ↗

— Howard Cosell

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The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. ↗

— Bruce Henderson

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