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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

Place, Decisions, Culture

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
Charlie Sheen

Life, Business, Dad

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers

Hate, Start, Again

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Steve Jobs

Money, Pretty, Making

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
George S. Patton

Time, Fear, Important

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard

True, May, Dream

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
Brian Tracy

Positive, Winners, Event

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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Samuel Johnson

Blessings, Before, Choice

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Will Rogers

Time, Down, Dog

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yourself, Happen, Believing

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Voltaire

Art, Government, Nation

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
Charlie Sheen

Knowledge, Help, Through

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
William Hazlitt

Respect, Hypocrite, Himself

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom, Government, Democracy

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Steve Jobs

Important, Saying, Thinking

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank

Food, Sunshine, Soul

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore Roosevelt

Great, Mind, Win

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Him, Far

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore Roosevelt

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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.
Steve Jobs

Best, Goal, Biggest

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.
David Millar

Mistakes, Human, Chance

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
Bing Crosby

Christmas, Snow, Blessings

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers

Become, Pay, Crime

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein

Strong, Miss, Drink

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Cesar Chavez

Food, Heart, Someone

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie

Life, Today, Yourself

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Joseph Campbell

Human, Humanity, Able

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Men, Strong

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
Will Rogers

Money, Government, Keep

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