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• The government has investigated our program of collecting through a generalized fashion, everyone's phone records in the country. And they found that no terrorist case has been thwarted through this.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Fashion, Phones

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

  Bob Schaffer

  Party, Light, Doe

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• As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Honey, Bees

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• The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.

  George W. Bush

  Law, Focus, Tasks

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• Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Heart, Play, Yesterday

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

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• Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they were being exterminated and driven off their land, Whites were collecting assets.

  Ishmael Reed

  Native American, Illinois, Land

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you have 15 minutes per visit, and you spend the first 9 minutes just collecting information from them, before you do anything else, you know half of your visit is gone already. So if you have an automated system that has most of that and, and in some cases I actually have patients complete questionnaires before they come in, so I'd gotten most of the information I need to ask about, already recorded, instead of having 9 minutes I can take 3 minutes to review all this information.

  William Davis

  Needs, Gone, Half

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• Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences.

  Kesh

  Collecting Things, Space, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've been collecting crystals for many, many years for healing purposes and decoration. I guess since my name is Crystal, I have no choice.

  Crystal Renn

  Healing, Years, Names

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The Grimm brothers always said that their informants were women, which is possibly not true, women of the people. There is the constant evocation of women's voices, in the collecting and arrangement of these stories, and yet the message of so many of them is incredibly misogynist. I was very puzzled by that, and that book explores that contradiction.

  Marina Warner

  Brother, Book, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love Tumblr, I love it, it's like collaging and collecting images, it's such a fun thing to do, it's something that's really therapeutic and I don't really know why.

  Lizzy Plapinger

  Fun, Things To Do, Knows

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• I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Book, Kids, Geek

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd been collecting different ethnic instruments here and there, and then I started making little bell type stuff, looking for weird little sound toys.

  Z'EV

  Sound, Here And There, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Important, Records, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Home, Joy, Electronic Music

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• [Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.

  Ernest Jones

  Science, Simple, Ideas

  Ernest Jones (1961). “The life and work of Sigmund Freud”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Looks, Limits

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.125, Penguin

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• I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.

  Isaac Marion

  Wall, Memories, Moving

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.

  John Logan

  Lonely, Art, Parent

  John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.34, Oberon Books

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• I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.

  William Thomas Beckford

  Writing, Moon, Journey

  Letter to Catherine, Lady Hamilton, April 1781; cited from "The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill" by Lewis Melville, London: William Heinemann, (p. 92), 1910.

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• Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

  Carol Gilligan

  Spring, Rain, Love Life

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• My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Passion, My Own, Has Beens

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1926). “Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney”

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• When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

  Christina Stead

  Money, People, Gold

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994.

  Alec Baldwin

  Beautiful, Men, Eight

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• People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

  Dalai Lama

  Collecting Things, People, True Happiness

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