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• I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.

  Steven Pinker

  Looks, Significant, Opening

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• It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

  Steven Pinker

  Fighting, Men, Battle

  "A History of Violence" by Steven Pinker, newrepublic.com. March 19, 2007.

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• Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

  Steven Pinker

  Character, Historic, William The Conqueror

  "Surprising Family Trees!". abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.

  John Piper

  Christian, Men, Two

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• You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

  Brad Pitt

  Inspirational, Dance, Bollywood

  "Brad Pitt: 'I Would Love to Work in A Bollywood Film'" by Nyay Bhushan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 20, 2012.

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• An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

  Sidney Poitier

  Directors, Cost, Return

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• I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

  Paula Poundstone

  Years, Degrees, Obsessive Compulsive

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• Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

  Colin Powell

  Zero, Military, Heart

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• In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

  Lucy Powell

  Mps, Trends, Cabinets

  "Despite Sarah Palin, the glass ceiling for women in politics remains" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Squares, Roots, People

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• Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

  Terry Pratchett

  Opera, Failing, Happens

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Maskerade: (Discworld Novel 18)”, p.81, Random House

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• All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.

  Quentin Bryce

  Baby, Men, Support

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• Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wedding, Men, Honor

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.71, Ballantine Books

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• At night, what you see is a city, because all you see is lights. By day, it doesn't look like a city at all. The trees out-number the houses. And that's completely typical of Seattle. You can't quite tell: is it a city, is it a suburb, is the forest growing back?

  Jonathan Raban

  Night, Light, Cities

  "In Seattle with Jonathan Raban" by Mike Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2008.

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• It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

  Jim Ramstad

  Aggravation, People, Addiction

  United States of America Congressional Record Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress First Session Vol 145- Part 10, p. 14054, June 1999.

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• Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

  Ayn Rand

  Rights, Law, Matter

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.245, Penguin

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• I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

  Helen Reddy

  Women, Too Much, Bigs

  "I Am Woman" (song) (1971)

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• Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.

  Ann Richards

  Needs, Causes, Wells

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• Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

  Eric Ries

  Vanity, Want, Metrics

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• There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

  Eric Ries

  Support, Entrepreneur, Risk

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• I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Writing, Thinking, Two

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  The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

  Jenni Rivera

  Fallen

  "Jenni Rivera Dies in Mexican Plane Crash, Wreckage is 'Unrecognizable'", www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2012.

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• There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.

  Tim Robbins

  Country, Heart, Conservative

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• There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Excess, Splendor, Innocent

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• The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

  David Rockefeller

  Beautiful, Art, Design

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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