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«Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.»

Author: William Hurrell Mallock | About: Politics | Keywords: disguised, modified, modifies, modifying, power politics, pretext, pretexts, prudence, struggle

«Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.»

Author: Donald Rumsfeld | Keywords: flow, improve, loose, modifies, modify, modifying, novice, novices, observe, pilot, The Novice

«One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.»

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (President) | About: Doing Your Best | Keywords: go along, modifies, modify, modifying, turn out

«When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.»

Author: Norman Vincent Peale (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: modifies, modify, modifying, personal, pray, tend

«If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.»

Author: Anthony Robbins | Keywords: approach, challenge, defect, failure, immediately, modifies, modify, modifying, overwhelm, overwhelmed, overwhelms, personality, problem, rather

«We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.»

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (President) | About: Doing Your Best | Keywords: modifies, modify, modifying, turn out

«Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.»

Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Life | Keywords: influences, measured, modifies, modify, modifying, rapidity, succession

«The paper cutouts allow me to draw with color. For me, it is a simplification. Instead of drawing an outline and then filling in with color-with one modifying the other-I draw directly in color...It is not a starting point, it is a completion.»

Author: Henri Matisse (Artist, Painter) | Keywords: drawing, filling, in color, modifying, outline, outlines, Outlining, simplification

«A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.»

Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: come round, expected, fit, fit in, hole, hole up, modifies, modify, modifying, must have, right away, round, rounder, rounding, round up, shape, square, squared, squares, The Holes, Times Square

«Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.»

Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: blame, determines, environment, govern, lovely, modifies, modifying, surroundings

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