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• The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Law Of Attraction, Machines, Bigs

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.154, Penguin

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• Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow.

  Kevin Myers

  Doe, Masters, Brian

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• If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.

  K. Eric Drexler

  Self, Effort, World

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• Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

  Eugene Field

  Village, Letters, Maidens

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• He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him... He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Book, Fall, Reflection

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

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• But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

  Aaron Swartz

  Dark, Wealth Of Knowledge, Greed

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

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• Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.

  Seth Godin

  Competition, Industry

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• The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.

  Clive James

  Art, New York, Believe

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Men, Thinking

  "Signal to Noise". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

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• The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Intelligent, Mirrors

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.34, GENERAL PRESS

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• The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.

  Jean Cocteau

  Done

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• Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.

  Tony Benn

  Determination, Share, Carbon

  Speech in Southampton, May 25, 1971.

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• If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Reading, Mean, Know Yourself

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Earth, Ancestry, Essentials

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 136, 1949.

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• I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night.

  Frederick Lenz

  Night, Bed, Next

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• Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Rama, Enough

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• I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.

  Bob Newhart

  Writing, Men, Years

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. July 2, 2003.

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• You can simulate perfection, but it's not the same. Some one can do a copy of Rembrandt, but it's not a Rembrandt. It doesn't have the vibration or the power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfection, Vibrations, Gaining Power

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• I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating anecdote, or fact, or phrase, I'll write it on the inside of my arm. At the end of the day, I'll take the very best things that are on my arm and I'll copy them into a notebook that I always carry and only when the weather is absolutely terrible will I really key the very best of that notebook into the computer. At that point, it's all sort of censored twice - only the best things go from the arm to the book and only the best things go from the book to the computer.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Notebook, Writing, Weather

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap

  Dean Koontz

  Fall, Writing, Yelling

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• For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'

  Rich Sommer

  New York, Moving, Men

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• Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

  Sara Sheridan

  Kids, Aunt, Opportunity

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• Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

  Warren Buffett

  Answers

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• Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

  Peg Bracken

  Restaurants, Cooks, Seems

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.

  Leigh Hunt

  Running, Laughter, Drama

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