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I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.

~Emily Mortimer

Topics: Assume Certain Certain Extent Doing Extent Half Half The Time Idiot Just Know Really Think Time You I Think

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The enjoyment of work - to the extent that you have any - is likely highest in the first hours of the day when you are fresh, not tired, working on the most important things.

~Emily Oster

Topics: Any Day Enjoyment Extent First Fresh Highest Hours Important Important Things Likely Most The Most Important Things Tired Work Working You

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I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.

~Emma Stone

Topics: Arizona Extent Generation How How Much King Knowledge Knows Luther Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr Movement Much My Generation Parks Public Public School Raised Rosa Rosa Parks School Story Wonder I Was Raised I Wonder

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I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way.

~Emraan Hashmi

Topics: Am Believe Bible Certain Certain Extent Conduct Connect Extent My Own Offer Only Own Regularly Respect Rituals Them Those Understand Up Way I Am I Can I Believe

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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Cause Considerable Extent Faith Holy Lost Ourselves Substitute

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People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: About Always Becomes Been Brains Creative Creativity Easy Enjoy Even Extent Happiest Hard More Most People Productive Some Tasks Too True Work Zone

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Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.

~Eric Shinseki

Topics: Amount Assume Balkans Certain Different Extent Going Iraq Linear Needed Per Population Radically Required Same Something Troops Well World

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I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

~Erik Larson

Topics: Anti-Semitism Aware Department Extent Levels Never State State Department States United United States Upper

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What drove me to do 'Dead Wake' was that after doing the most preliminary of reading and scoping out what kinds of materials might be available in archives and so forth, I realized that this book - the research, the writing - would present me with a rare opportunity to explore to a full extent the potential for suspense in a nonfiction work.

~Erik Larson

Topics: After Archives Available Book Dead Doing Drove Explore Extent Forth Full Kinds Materials Me Might Most Nonfiction Opportunity Out Potential Preliminary Present Rare Reading Realized Research Suspense Wake Work Would Writing

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Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.

~Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Topics: Account Active Conscience Consequently Die Extent Find Forces How Ideas Know Only Profess Realities Reasonable Righteous Sanction Them Those Turn Which Who

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