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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more econ...

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Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing...

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I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all hu...

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A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

There is no try. There is only do.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of ...

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then th...

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Don't mistake activity with achievement.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doin...

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True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained...

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All I've ever wanted to do is design and make it's what I love doing.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeli...

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One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'd...

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I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed.

What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the ...

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After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in th...

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Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something...

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Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more o...

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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded U...

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I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became...

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Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. ...

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There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a sp...

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An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than t...

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The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned ...

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Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for...

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I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm jus...

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I would be lying if I said it wasn't cool to see myself on the cover of 'Vanity Fair,' right? It's, ...

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Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable onl...

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Memories are doing funny things to us.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing w...

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I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doin...

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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends ...

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It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough...

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Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My...

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Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they...

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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would'v...

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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch the...

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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within th...

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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be...

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The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the ri...

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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is ...

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I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I...

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The stylish kids on the street, they're the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they're...

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The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what...

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I can not, therefore, see how this can be imputed as a crime, or how any of the king's ministers can...

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One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, an...

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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, tryin...

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I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right ...

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I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, bu...

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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading yo...

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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing g...

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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right...

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never l...

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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, m...

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Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's educatio...

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I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually t...

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It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what ...

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I've made mistakes before of doing different projects just based on my dreams, my hopes, my thing, a...

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I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...

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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazin...

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Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I'v...

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In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't kn...

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If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the...

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Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standar...

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When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do th...

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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a rea...

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Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor wa...

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You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space q...

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