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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

~Aaron Koblin

Topics: About Actions Big Changes Complexity Data Feeling Get How Infrastructure Management More Our Relationship See Sets Systems Think Transparent

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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

~Abigail Adams

Topics: Actions Correspond Few Many Them Too Words

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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

~Abu Bakr

Topics: Actions Adversity Against Blows Good Guard

Keywords: Abandonment


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Intentions count in your actions.

~Abu Bakr

Topics: Actions Count Intentions Your

Keywords: Abandonment


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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Actions Brain Cerebral Day Distinct Equations Equivalent Getting Gravitation Hopes Law Laws Mathematical Molecules Mutual One Day Phenomena Planetary Put Short Them Too Very World I Can

Keywords: Abhorrent


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Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Actions Although Altruistic Assistance Because Before Coming Give Givers Less Masks May More Motives Others Oxygen Prove Purely Secure Successful

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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

~Adam Johnson

Topics: Acting Actions Censored Change Character Dangerous Desire Entire Essential Feelings Growth Had Hidden Human Human Actions Lest Longing Personal Populace Punished Revealing Self Spontaneity State Think True Were Whispering Your

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Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

~Adam Savage

Topics: About Actions Attention Because Did Family Future Happen Here Life Listening Me My Life Out Paid Past Prayer Someone Them Want Work Works

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A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.

~Adena Friedman

Topics: Actions Better Hears Her Idea Information Leader Learns Listens New Refine She Views Who Willing

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An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.

~Adnan Pachachi

Topics: Actions Apology Armed Armed Forces Been Course Extent Forces Helped Here Majority Representative Some Think Troops Useful Who Would I Think

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