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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none. ↗

— Leland Stanford

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My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer. ↗

— Jan Hammer

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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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