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• Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate to make sweeping pronouncements about the economy in general, businesses in particular, and the many issues revolving around what is called 'income distribution'.

  Thomas Sowell

  Issues, Income Distribution, Fundamentals

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• The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

  Susan Sontag

  Past, Quality, Photograph

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.22, Macmillan

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• The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Mastery, Consciousness, States

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• The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Language, Mathematics, Subtle

  Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “Selected Non-Fictions”, Penguin Group USA

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• Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.

  Keith Devlin

  Gratitude, Jobs, Goal

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• I think we all have a bunch of different people inside of us, and then for a particular role you bring a certain side of that self of yourself forward to sort of play, but it's always really dimensionalised.

  Vince Vaughn

  Thinking, Self, Play

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.

  Neil Diamond

  Character, Emotional, Guitar

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• The general public doesn't know and probably doesn't care about punctuated equilibria nor indeed should they, or the greenhouse effect on some other planet - they barely have the ability to cope with the greenhouse effect on their own planet. So I think you have to distinguish between the broad visibility of a scientist when he or she is speaking to a general public and trying to address general issues and the continued position that a scientist may have into the history of a particular subject.

  Richard Lewontin

  Thinking, Issues, Trying

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say either Einstein or Newton or something like that because their claims were supposed to apply universally. But the claim of somebody who is studying a particular feature of the evolutionary process like whether it's very fast or very slow, or occurs in steps and so on, that's not a universal claim, that's a rather specialised claim and so you can't claim to great fame and great success.

  Richard Lewontin

  Steps, Study, Newton

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• History has got a lot to do with unique circumstances under certain particular cases and grand theories will always find counter cases. I don't think that people whose expertise lies in one thing should try to make grand theories about something (a) where it's very hard to get the evidence to prove that you're right and (b) where it's much too easy to make up stories that seem right.

  Richard Lewontin

  Lying, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I do believe that almost everything I do is based on my feelings, not on my intellect. Though But we won't chase ourselves up the particular sentiment, or we'll get lost.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Feelings, Lost

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature.

  Kevin Hart

  Prayer, Sunday, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work.

  Christophe Beck

  Fun, Personality, Quality

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism, and there's obviously nothing important in that particular statement, but it's really about the fact that people create you as a good actor.

  Alexander Siddig

  People, Important, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My dad was a big believer of having a golf club that fit me. Always have a golf club that fits you, so you don't have to make any swing compensations for that particular golf club.

  Tiger Woods

  Dad, Golf, Swings

  "Online Extra: A Dream of a Driver for Tiger (extended)". Interview with Roger O. Crockett, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• When it comes to fashion, I'm just inspired by anyone who has their own flair or piece on anything. I love originality. I love when people bring some bold and don't do what's been done or being done. I don't think I have anyone in particular. Just anyone who's original really inspires me.

  Blake Michael

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot.

  Richard Branson

  Struggle, School, Thinking

  "Screw Business as Usual: an interview with Sir Richard Branson". Interview with Todd Miller, blog.sfgate.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.

  Bell Hooks

  Powerful, Believe, Cutting

  "October 2006 Interview: Bell Hooks". Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October 2006.

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• Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can lock us into particular behavior patterns, which themselves result in further accumulations of tendencies of a similar nature... But is is not necessary to be a prisoner of old karma.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Karma, Confused, Destiny

  "Radiant Mind: Essential Buddhist Teachings and Texts". Book by Jean Smith, 1999.

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• Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business,
  Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care
  Take hold on me; for my particular grief
  Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature
  That it engluts and swallows other sorrows,
  And it is still itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sorrow, Bed

  1603-4 Brabanzio, learning of Desdemona's marriage. Othello, act 1, sc.3, l.55-8.

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• To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes... If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves.

  Tyler Cowen

  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

  John Dewey

  Reason, Conclusion, Universal

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• There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Facts, Computer

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

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• The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Beautiful, Alaska, Light

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• I don't write for a particular audience.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Audience

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