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• The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE's?

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Jobs, Giving, The End Of The Day

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• I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Technology, Thinking

  "The Atheism Tapes". Documentary, 2004.

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• Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Guy, Warning

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.359, Penguin

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• It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

  Eileen Atkins

  Hands, People, Mind

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• I have searched everywhere to find an answer to my question, 'Is there enlightenment?' but have never questioned the search itself. Because I have assumed that goal of enlightenment exists, I have had to search. It is the search itself which has been choking me and keeping me out of my natural state. There is no such thing as spiritual or psychological enlightenment because there is no such thing as spirit or psyche at all. I have been a damn fool all my life, searching for something which does not exist. My search is at an end.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Goal, Enlightenment

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• You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Research, Littles, Lists

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• The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.

  Billie Holiday

  Fall, Pits, Orchestra

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• I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Country, Team

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.1, Nation Books

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• War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

  Herman Wouk

  War, People, Watches

  Herman Wouk (1951). “The Caine mutiny: a novel of World War II.”, Garden City

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• We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity - for giving a damn.

  Jonathan Ive

  Beautiful, Integrity, Numbers

  "Jonathan Ive designs tomorrow" by John Arlidge, time.com. March 17, 2014.

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• I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.

  Mos Def

  Memories, Live Life, Sight

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• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Brother, Memories, Past

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• The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

  Jodi Picoult

  May, Who We Are, Damn Good

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!

  James Goldman

  Troops, Maids, Halfway

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• Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

  Edith Piaf

  Law, People, Giving

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• The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person.

  Amish Tripathi

  Hate, Love Is, Apathy

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• People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Life, Fear, Ignorance

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.637, Penguin

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• It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Dry, Littles

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• I mean, the Lakers are pretty damn Hollywood.

  Jerry Buss

  Mean, Lakers, Hollywood

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• Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Beautiful, Anime, Perfect

  "Fullmetal Alchemist". Anime by Hiromu Arakawa, 2001 - 2010.

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• Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Way, Poor, Quicksand

  Letters to Guy Moyston, August 25, 1924 and July 11, 1925.

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• Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak
  human, not the other way around.

  Spider Robinson

  Robots, Fiction, Way

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• I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.

  Edmund Hillary

  Attitude, Lying, Thinking

  "Death on Everest divides climbers" by Sasha Shtargot and Janine Bennetts, www.theage.com.au. May 25, 2006.

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• We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Brother, Growing Up, Rooms

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• When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Home, Orchestra, Cows

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