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History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
Daisaku Ikeda
History
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Wisdom
,
Human
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
Louis Pasteur
Life
,
Universe
,
Known
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences.
Louis Pasteur
Life
,
Universe
,
Known
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.
Herman Kahn
Mistakes
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Simple
,
Thought
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.
George Saunders
Made
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Decisions
,
Talk
Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.
Kim Campbell
Today
,
Progress
,
High
Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
King Abdullah II
Through
,
Play
,
Strange
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
Titus Livius
Brave
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Fortune
,
Helps
Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.
Jeffrey Kluger
Parents
,
Focus
,
Before
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
Tom Clancy
Knowledge
,
Technology
,
Today
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
George Gurdjieff
Change
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Struggle
,
Progress
Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.
Leon Panetta
Politics
,
Good
,
Attitude
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
Charlotte Davis Kasl
Power
,
Children
,
Dance
We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.
Dick Cheney
Down
,
Trying
,
Moment
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
Gustav Mahler
Short
,
Achieve
,
Pieces
I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.
Shawn Johnson
Priority
,
Heal
,
Knee
I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
Jane Pauley
Life
,
Awful
,
Exceeding
The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.
Nick Clegg
Cannot
,
Broken
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While
People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.
Laurieann Gibson
Experience
,
Girl
,
Fight
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
Thor Heyerdahl
Modern
,
Taught
,
Clearly
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Harrison Ford
Kids
,
Older
,
Influence
What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
Walter Bagehot
Men
,
Mind
,
Impresses
I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.
Steven Gerrard
Bad
,
Down
,
Times
No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Martin Van Buren
Evil
,
Toleration
,
Pernicious
I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.
Bobby Darin
Blame
,
Give
,
Two
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
Alan Cohen
Joy
,
Sense
,
Getting
Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.
Tom Vilsack
Nature
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Technology
,
Sometimes
I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
Jack Kemp
Why
,
Economic
,
Sound
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
Jose Saramago
Work
,
Important
,
Revolution
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
Manuel Puig
Nothing
,
Reality
,
Understand
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