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• As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Long, Language Development

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• You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

  Rihanna

  Beautiful, Mean, Want Something

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• So many dot-com companies were formulated on air.

  William Shatner

  Air, Company

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• When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity, their peripheral vision shrinks. There is no big picture, no dots to connect.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Positive, Positivity, People

  Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.57, Harmony

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• Aight baby show me the exact spot, meet me at Hoyt & Schemethorn at 3 on the dot

  Jeru the Damaja

  Baby, Rap, Spots

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• I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.

  Kofi Annan

  Inspiration, School, Boys

  "Kofi Annan discusses Bolton, scandal, Iraq". Interview with Barbara Slavin, www.usatoday.com. May 15, 2005.

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• The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dream, Good Life, Thinking

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• Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Issues, Water, Needs

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• All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

  Mitchell Thomas

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to seize this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future.

  Al Gore

  War, Believe, Home

  "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 30, 2006.

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• If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.

  Rainn Wilson

  Expression, Shining, Creative

  "Big Think Interview With Rainn Wilson". Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day talking to children. And I find it fundamentally strange that you're not a dessert person. It freaks me out. I'm sorry that I don't talk like Murphy Brown. And I hate your pants suit. I wish it had ribbons on it or something just to make it slightly cuter but that doesn't mean I'm not smart and tough and strong.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Strong, Children, Sorry

  "Fictional character: Jess". "New Girl" (Season 1, Episode 11), 2011-2018.

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• Put this in your CD-ROM: www dot Canibus dot com. You can find me on the Internet, talkin' to chicks That was sweatin' me off the 'Music Makes Me High' remix. I be talkin' mad trash, tryin to get 'em to laugh. See, if I click and drag long enough I'll get the ass.

  Canibus

  Rap, Cds, Long

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• The most important thing for people to get is we're not even looking at one big investigation, all these agents working together. They were chopped up and divided, but because I worked in the central place... other agents were sending their material to me... I was in this position to see all the dots being connected... These agents, while I was there, because I was the central person, they started connecting the dots.

  Sibel Edmonds

  People, Working Together, Important

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• Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Coming Back, Connected

  Ann Patchett (2009). “What Now?”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Trace the stars with your fingers in hopes you’ll connect the dots, but don’t get caught in the lines that aren’t really there ‘cause there is life in every breath you take and there is hope with every move you make, and every single mistake you think you’ve made should make you feel alive ‘cause you only have one chance to live in this spec we call life.

  John O'Callaghan

  Stars, Mistake, Moving

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• Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Science, Names, Age

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• At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.

  Hokusai

  Real, Animal, Bird

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• My grandfather and my father disagreed about music, not least of all because my dad wanted to improvise. It wasn't just that he wanted to play different music; it was just that he came off the dots.

  Elvis Costello

  Dad, Father, Play

  "Elvis Costello: The ESQ&A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mean, Night, Bunk

  Arthur Guiterman, “The Traveler”

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• In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.

  John French Sloan

  Color, Broken, Principles

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• People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots.

  Tom Clancy

  Smart, People, Information

  "Clancy Speaks Again, Briefly". Tom Clancy's post, clancyfaq.com, February 12, 2000.

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