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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive. Charles Caleb Colton
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We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on. Charles Stross
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But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. Alan Watts
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And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both. Alan Blinder
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I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon. Dave Franco
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Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself. Carl Icahn
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You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out. Billy Joe Saunders
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In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . . Edward Gibbon
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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. David Hockney
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Men are disgusting and, left to their own devices, they will affront the central tenets of human decency - and laugh uproariously at it Jonah Goldberg
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What we have seen is a brutal and violent assault on press freedom. It is an unspeakable affront to democracy when a government turns to violence to stifle the voice of its media critics. Aidan White
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. William F. Buckley, Jr.
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It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate. Rand Paul
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I don't think you can change that. That's part of his personality type. He's kind of a fun-loving guy. He takes affront if someone is trying to take it to the house on him. He just has to be careful with that because the more you get in there, the more you become kind of a target for one of those big guys.
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I find it very heartening that the Albany/Alexander community has organized so effectively and spoken out so strongly to what I consider to be an affront to these students' rights, ... The good news is we have local people who are acting.
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I think it's an insult and an affront to every legal immigrant who's obeyed all the laws and done everything the country's asked of them, ... I don't think it's fair that millions of people should be able to cut in line in front of them. It directly undermines our immigration laws." () Tom McClintock
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If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. Bryan Fuller
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whose continuing liberty is an affront to the authority of this council.