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If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.
Roger Sherman

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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
Dallas Willard

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When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.
Confucius

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Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
Marcus Aurelius

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Think about each pitch like you think about women, then select one which is particularly appealing.
Tommy Lasorda

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Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.
Michael Behe

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Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.
John C. Bogle

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I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.
Joseph Pulitzer

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True friends are families which you can select.
Audrey Hepburn

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Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.
Dean Martin

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A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.
Carl Jung

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Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.
Richard Attenborough

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Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.
Isabel Allende

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Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.
Alfred North Whitehead

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The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.
Rogers Hornsby

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Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
Confucius

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I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.
Jonathon Keats

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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
Naguib Mahfouz

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God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.
Paulo Coelho

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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
Plato

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Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card...I've already seen this trick.
Michael Ammar

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I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
Ai Weiwei

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Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.
E. Merrill Root

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My experience enables me to select the very best pilots in the market.
Niki Lauda

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Punishment as punishment is not admissible unless the offender has had the freewill to select his course.
Clarence Darrow

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I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant.
Prince William

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Traditionally, art has been for the select few.
Bob Ross

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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Henry Adams

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The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!
Kin Hubbard

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Free markets select for winning solutions.
Eric S. Raymond

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I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis
Antony Beevor

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The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.
George Eliot

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All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
Francis Bacon

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After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
Seth Godin

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. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.
Noam Chomsky

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Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.
Marcus Aurelius

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[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.
Donald Trump

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I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.
Joyce Carol Oates

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I`m just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.
Lawrence O'Donnell

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For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.
Neil Jordan

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Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
Hilary Mantel

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Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
Dan Buettner

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Work is underway to select the go forward smartphone brand.
Stephen Elop

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In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist.
Kiersten White

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Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.
Jakob Dylan