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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
Life and Living
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Necessity
Euripides

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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Critics and Criticism
Dr. Emmit Fox

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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
Ideals and Idealism
John Galsworthy

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The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
Motivation
Ken Gilbert

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Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Crime and Criminals
Emma Goldman

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Who can direct when all pretend to know?
Management
Oliver Goldsmith

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That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Ingratitude
Samuel Goldwyn

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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Vision
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
Dissatisfaction
Doug Horton

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Play needs direction as well as work.
Plays
Elbert Hubbard

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Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread.
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Thomas Jefferson

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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
Goals
Joseph Joubert

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Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.
Choice
David Kelley

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Effort
John F. Kennedy

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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Goals
Walter Savage Landor

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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
Defeat
Douglas Macarthur

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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
Desire
John Mcdonald

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It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
Candor
Marshall Mcluhan

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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
Imagination
George Meredith

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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
New Year
Ogden Nash

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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Action
Jawaharlal Nehru

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The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
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Reinhold Niebuhr

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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts
Mind
Earl Nightingale

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Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
Housework
Ann Oakley

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun