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• A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.

  Walter Tracy

  Beautiful, Letters, Typefaces

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• Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Law, Evil, World

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.

  Robertson Davies

  Past, Audience Of One, Long

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected Works on the Pleasures of Reading”, Penguin Group Canada

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• There were nude pictures... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art.

  Paul Reubens

  Art, Dirty, Views

  "Pee-wee actor denies paedophile claims". www.abc.net.au. April 1, 2004.

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• I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value.

  Steve Ballmer

  People, Knows, Proven

  "Ballmer says Google's hiring pace is 'insane'". Bloomberg News, March 16, 2007.

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• Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or statues. But the example of other collections should be a warning to us to diversify, to have not one woman only but several.

  Marcel Proust

  Women, Example, Warning

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.449, Modern Library

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• What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

  Joshua Reynolds

  Wall, Wells, Chosen

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• I know my comfort zone and I know what my strong points are and my first love was always music. I'm a huge cinema fan. I was taking my time; I got offered a lot of scripts and things along the way but until Burlesque showed up at my doorstep, it really spoke to me. I have a collection of burlesque books at home that I've had for years. I've always been intrigued and fascinated with the topic, the beauty and the art of it and the comedic value of it. I think it's just a beautiful, empowering thing for women.

  Christina Aguilera

  Beautiful, Art, Strong

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• I went around to the little schoolhouses, talking like a professor, explaining our platform. We were lucky if the collection gave us enough for gas to get to the next place. We encouraged questions, and people asked us if it was true we were going to take their farms, like the Soviets in Russia, and did we believe in God.

  Tommy Douglas

  Believe, Russia, Talking

  "Tommy Douglas". Book by Doris French Shackleton, 1983.

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• The older you get, the more you have to talk about, and music is a really good outlet. I've chilled on it a little bit, and I can't wait to see what I'm going to step into, now that I have this collection of things.

  Selena Gomez

  Waiting, Littles, Steps

  "Selena Gomez Talks RUDDERLESS, Sympathizing with the Character, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2, Where Her Career Is Headed, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

  Brock Yates

  Character, Fighting, Men

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.169, MotorBooks International

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• I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Writing, Night, Dragons

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• That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.

  Stan Lee

  Mother, Growing Up, Stupid

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• Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mystery, Exploration, Continuing

  "How We Know". Freeman Dyson's review of James Gleick's book "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood" (2011), www.nybooks.com. March 10, 2011.

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• The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can prove anything from it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Humour, Prove, Values

  "The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, Chapter XXXVIII, p. 377, 1980.

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• Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic music; we did not have it in Tibet.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Add

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• We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.

  John Kasich

  Data Collection, Goal, Community

  "Rep. Donna Edwards, Freddie Gray family attorney on bridging the gap between race and justice; Gov. John Kasich considers presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2015.

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• Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot.

  Ryan Lewis

  Kids, Choices, Parent

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• Want to discover the truth about deception in therapy? Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson have collected a formable collection of old pros whose compelling prose sheds light on an important, but previously unexplored, subtext that permeates psychotherapy. Don't fool yourself: The roadmap to avoid being duped is contained within.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Light, Deception, Important

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• The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Real, College

  "The Hold Steady's 10 Rock Albums Every Man Should Own" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

  Michael Dirda

  Order, Two, Library

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• If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is watching Murakami come at his obsessions from so many different angles. There's a panoply of strangeness between these covers (.....) This collection shows Murakami at his dynamic, organic best. As a chronicler of contemporary alienation, a writer for the Radiohead age, he shows how taut and thin our routines have become, how ill-equipped we are to contend with the forces that threaten to disrupt us.

  Antoine Wilson

  Sleep, Age, Different

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• In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron, cicada, spider, catalpa tree, mockingbird, snail, cormorant, and others. These pitch-perfect poems are written with a delicate, meticulous attention to craft and music. Like the joy she takes in her subjects, this collection is a joy to read.

  Elizabeth Spires

  Summer, White, Perfect

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• The only thing better than a superb collection of spinechilling stories, is a superb collection of spinechilling stories accompanied by equally unsettling illustrations, and in that regard, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better example than IN MINT CONDITION: 2013. In reading it, I have discovered writers and artists previously unknown to me who are now very high on my radar, and they should be just as high on yours.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Reading, Artist, Illustration

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• You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.

  Mark Lawrence

  Frozen, Alive, Moments

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