"Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities." – Tom G. Palmer

"For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding." – Paul Ricoeur

"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict." – Saul Alinsky

sabbatical \suh-BAT-i-kuhl\, noun:
1. Any extended period of leave from one’s customary work, especially for rest, to acquire new skills or training, etc.

adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to or appropriate to the Sabbath.
2. Bringing a period of rest.

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"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top." – James Reston

"As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish." – Demosthenes

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." – Mark Twain

yarely \YAIR-lee\, adverb:
With quickness or agility.

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"Do Tasmanian devils really exist?" – Tom Cochrane

"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only." – William Blake

"A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils." – Margaret Cavendish

kerf \KURF\, noun:
1. A cut or incision made by a saw or the like in a piece of wood.
2. In mining, a deep cut a few inches high, used to undermine a portion of a coal or mineral seam.
3. The act of cutting or carving.
verb:
1. To cut or carve.

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"Clarity affords focus." – Thomas Leonard

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected." – Steve Jobs

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them." – W. Clement Stone

"Doing is a quantum leap from imagining." – Barbara Sher

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." – John D. Rockefeller

"Don’t find fault, find a remedy." – Henry Ford

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out." – Stephen Covey

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"Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?" – Ernest Renan

"We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys." – Bruce Sterling

"Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp" – Heinrich Heine

brindled \BRIN-dld\, adjective:

Gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots.

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"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit." – Emmanuel Teney

"All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired." – Martin Luther

"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ." – Martin Luther

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." – Mother Teresa

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“But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf.” – Paul Cellucci

“Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.” – John James Audubon

“Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.” – Alan Shepard

“My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.” – Jack Adams

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"As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate." – John Dykstra

"As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography – digital photography – to post photos on my website on a daily basis." – Tipper Gore

"Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!" – Trip Hawkins

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"Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws." – John Adams

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society." – John Adams

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." – John Adams

"Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide." – John Adams

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." – John Adams

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"Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!" – Comte de Lautreamont

"All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry." – Gustave Flaubert

"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art." – Albrecht Durer

"A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?" – Jacques Lacan

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"Action is the real measure of intelligence." – Napoleon Hill

"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Always be smarter than the people who hire you." – Lena Horne

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." – Albert Camus

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"Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism… to ward off threats to her own security and influence." – Bernadette Devlin

"Condemnatory conservatism isn’t anything I’m interested in." – David Brudnoy

"Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed." – Morris Raphael Cohen

"Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism." – Abraham Kuyper

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"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power." – George Meredith

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness." – John Keats

"A women’s greatest asset is her beauty." – Alex Comfort

"A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears." – Anne Roiphe

"Beauty and folly are old companions." – Benjamin Franklin

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"Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal." – Charles Darwin

"A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone." – Charles Darwin

"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men." – Charles Darwin

"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world." – Charles Darwin

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness." – Charles Darwin

"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children." – Charles Darwin

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has." – Margaret Mead

"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy." – Michael Burgess

"No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means." – Garrett Hardin

"Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life – all life." – Roger Tory Peterson

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"Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand." – Carlos Salinas de Gortari

"Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart." – Garrett Hardin

"However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious." – Garrett Hardin

"I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too." – Ulrich Beck

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"Photography suits the temper of this age – of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately." – Edward Weston

"I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet." – Aristide Maillol

"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture." – Robert Rauschenberg

"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language." – Steven Pinker

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"There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason – perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious." – Nicholas Mosley

"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it." – Ernst Fischer

"As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth." – John Greenleaf Whittier

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"We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?" – Will Rogers

"Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate." – Nicolas Chamfort

"In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact." – Steve Buyer

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so." – Robert A. Heinlein

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"You can bend it and twist it… You can misuse and abuse it… But even God cannot change the Truth." – Michael Levy

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." – Albert Einstein

"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic." – Anais Nin

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