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“Develop a built-in bullshit detector.”
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“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”
Source : Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).
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“[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.”
Source : Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.27, University of Michigan Press
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“I'm not one who learned the Koran through recitation as a child, but one thing that always stands out is that there's no compulsion in religion. You can't tell people how to believe. It is an individual's relationship with their creator, and human beings should not be in the business of trying to tell others how they should live their lives.”
Source : "America’s First Openly Gay Imam Reflects on Orlando Massacre". Interview With Sara Rathod, www.motherjones.com. June 14, 2016. 
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“People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.”
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“Don't listen to experts.”
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“If somewhere is a deficiency the normal American answer would have been well then, let's spend some more money, build some more weapons and deploy them. That's the normal way of thinking of the military, in America not only but also all over the place, but America or Russia or other countries.”
Source : WGBH-TV Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.
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“You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting”
