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• I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.

  Veronica Roth

  Wikipedia, Links, Strange

  "Veronica Roth and Garth Nix: Sizing up two YA giants". Interview with Jenniffer Weigel, www.chicagotribune.com. October 8, 2014.

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• It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.

  George Lee Butler

  Responsibility, Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear

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• Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.

  Dale Spender

  Daughter, Reading, Writing

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• If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  Ignorance, Bliss, Lows

  Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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• Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Writing, Situation, Reporters

  Laurie Beth Jones (1998). “The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life”, Hyperion

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• It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Adoption, Kingdoms

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• I would say most people assume that I'm not very smart or educated or earnest, because I have this image that I'm sort of narcissistic, chasing attention, and wanting people to like me. It makes me laugh because I've done plenty of interviews and when you read the article from beginning to end you can see that I'm not your typical music video model.

  Megan Fox

  Smart, People, Laughing

  "Megan Fox hair color change on set of Teenage Ninja Turtles 2 movie" by nationalledger.com, May 14, 2015.

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• Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.

  Edward Gibbon

  Lying, Father, Wine

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.44

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• Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Giving, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (2006). “The Quotable Jefferson”

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• There are several natural phenomena which I shall have to have explained to me before I can keep on going as a resident member ofthe human race. One is the metamorphosis which hats and suits undergo exactly one week after their purchase, whereby they are changed from smart, intensely becoming articles of apparel into something children use when they want to "dress up like daddy.

  Robert Benchley

  Children, Smart, Race

  Robert Benchley (1946). “20,000 leagues under the sea: or, David Copperfield”

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• I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Felt

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• Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.

  Charles Kettering

  Business, People, Needs

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• [T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea . . . setting up debates where people learn not to listen to each other because they're so busy trying to win the debate.

  Deborah Tannen

  Teacher, Winning, Ideas

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• I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children tobe skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything.... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax.

  Brenda Ueland

  Faith, Pain, Attitude

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• Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Strong, Fall

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about him. He must do spectacular things. He must not be punctilious about dignity, decorum and other refinements characteristic of the real British gentleman. The Yankee pictured by the Briton must be a bustler. If he is occasionally flagrantly indiscreet in speech and action, then he is so much more surely stamped the genuine article. The most typical American the British ever set their eyes on was, in their judgment, Theodore Roosevelt.

  B. C. Forbes

  Real, Eye, America

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• A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  B. C. Forbes

  Writing, Men, Years

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• Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made aresold for prices that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex.

  Catharine Beecher

  Sex, Soul And Body, Giving

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1847). “The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children: The Causes and the Remedy”, p.6

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• The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13.

  Malcolm Godwin

  Angel, Numbers, Luck

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• [writing to Stirling in 1740]
  ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they were shewing French gallantry to the natives' wives, who have murdered their servants destroyed their instruments and burnt their papers, the Gentlemen escaping narrowly themselves. What an ugly article this will make in a journal.

  Colin Maclaurin

  Writing, Escaping, Wife

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• Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?

  Rachel Hartman

  Way, Facts, Belief

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• The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.

  Robert Benchley

  Summer, Night, Air

  Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.43, Glendower Media

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• I wrote a short article called "Yardcore" for that issue, too, as an attempt to talk about the Jamaican influence on garage, grime and dubstep; as a splicing of soundsystem culture and hardcore.

  Kode9

  Issues, Dubstep, Culture

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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• My job is not to talk smack about anything. This is why I dislike strongly doing magazine articles: My personality does not translate to print. People don't read it as sarcasm, and it just comes off badly.

  Sandra Bullock

  Jobs, Sarcasm, People

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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