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I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.

Larry Sanger

Thinking, People, Wikipedia

"Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism". Personal Website, larrysanger.org. December 31, 2004.

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Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

Ewan McGregor

Serious, Politician, Craze

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Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

Graham Taylor

Soccer, Ideas, Life Is Like

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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

Ferdinand Mount

Errors, People, Stubborn

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I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

Sally Schneider

Teaching, People, Cooking

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Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.

Marc Cherry

Trying, Television, Might

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I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

DeForest Kelley

Careers, Temptation, Exposed

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There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

Ennio Morricone

Winning, Two, Years

"Mozart of film music". Interview With Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

David Prowse

Smile, Mad, Laughing

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The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.

Herbert Croly

Swag, Democratic Ideals, Achievement

Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

Samuel Rogers

Law, Tears, Earth

Samuel Rogers (1793). “The Pleasures of Memory”, p.118

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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

Samuel Johnson

Kings, Heart, Law

Lines added to Oliver Goldsmith's The Traveller (1764)

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There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

Terence Fisher

Loss, Preparation, Important

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It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Hands, Giving

Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.207, North Point Press

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What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.

Arno Allan Penzias

Lonely, Encouragement, Insecure

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And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

Daniel J. Evans

Engineering, Choices, Training

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Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

C. S. Lewis

Christian, Men, Thinking

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

Gary Gygax

Encouragement, Children, Suggestions

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You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

Chita Rivera

Opposites, Fabulous, Feels

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I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course; and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.

Robert E. Lee

War, Passion, Acceptance

Robert E. Lee (1904). “Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee”, p.131, Lulu.com

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A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

Bent Larsen

Beautiful, Games, Appreciate

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The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

Georg Brandes

Attention, Headmasters, Persons

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

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It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

Henry David Thoreau

Money, Permit, Difficult

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.33, Graphic Arts Books

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By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

Blaise Pascal

Men, Race, Progress

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Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

George Farquhar

Play, Grace, Theatre

James Pocock, James Townley, David Garrick, George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe (1818). “Hit Or Miss! A Musical Farce in Two Acts”

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