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• Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.

  Jay Chiat

  Writing, Technology, Phones

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

  Margaret Atwood

  Atheism, Absence, Reverse

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Waiting, Balance

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• There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Thinking, Animal

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• Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.

  Garrett Hardin

  Religious, Believe, Book

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• If you really want to channel all of your energy towards higher mysticism, you should realize that sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Energy, Doe

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• I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have become vestiges of what they were and individuals with large amounts of money can leapfrog over that process, which can have a positive mediating effect. And so I think there are things to worry about.

  Alexander Stille

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.

  Amy Poehler

  Stress, Believe, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.

  Woody Allen

  Couple, Getting Older, Littles

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• Making movies is like a circus. You get together for a finite amount of time and you build the most extravagant thing you can, which requires teamwork. Most people don't know, but when you see something on screen, it looks perfect. If you go behind the scenes, things are very archaic. You only see the front of the building, not the back.

  Joe Hahn

  Teamwork, People, Perfect

  "Director Joe Hahn Talks MALL, Why He Chose This Material as His First Feature, the Casting Process, His Music Video Background, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.

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• People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

  David Brooks

  People, Giving

  "Shields and Brooks on the pope’s critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Hari Sreenivasan, www.pbs.org. November 29, 2013.

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• People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic. They have some issue. They have some interest. It may be world peace. It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

  David Brooks

  Issues, People, Giving

  "Shields and Brooks on the pope’s critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. November 29, 2013.

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• I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.

  Joe Manganiello

  Real, Thinking, Track

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• They [people of Afghanistan] didn't want Al-Qaeda in their country. They didn't appreciate the Taliban taking control. But they really have an incredible amount of dignity. And by that, they are grateful for America's help in ridding them of the Taliban. The average, ordinary person is glad that their daughter can go to school now. There's no public executions, no banning of soccer games. The difference is, they're appreciative, but they don't want any prolonged military presence of the United States there.

  Immortal Technique

  Soccer, Country, Daughter

  Source: www.ballerstatus.com

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• Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

  Jay Roach

  Giving Up, Privacy, Figures

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.

  Mel Brooks

  Writing, Trying, Actors

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work, she gave acute pleasure in new ways, she pushed the light of the English language a little further against darkness. Those are facts.

  E. M. Forster

  Virginia, Light, Missing

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• The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Eye, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again. . . . The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work.

  Martin Wolf

  Data, Risk, Doubt

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• Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Passion, Desire

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• The amount of hot girls who come to signings is incredible!

  Zayn Malik

  Girl, Hot, Incredibles

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• In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.

  Rich Sommer

  College, Rotation, Way

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• The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  People, Genius, Cheerfulness

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• Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

  Anthony Davis

  Meaningful, Important, Elements

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• Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate.

  William C. Bryant

  Pride, Honor, Quality

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