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“A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.”
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“One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.”
Source : "Food Stamps At The Heart Of Farm Bill Political Drama". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 29, 2013. 
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“I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is.”
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“I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue....It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.”
Source : "Farewell To All That: An Oral History Of The Bush White House" by Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum, www.vanityfair.com. February 2009.
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“I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.”
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“The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent.”
Source : B.F Skinner (2012). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.65, Simon and Schuster
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“Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California”
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“Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.”
Source : Garrett James Hardin (1961). “Biology, its principles and implications”
