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• I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.

  Emma Anderson

  Song, Thinking, People

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• A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.

  Catherine Crowe

  Age, Impossible, Unfaithful

  Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.205

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• I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

  Martin Buber

  Religion, Glad

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• I found the secret of life to be body placement.

  Brian Williams

  Secret, Body, Placement

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• But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

  Nassau William Senior

  Science, Drawing, Long

  Nassau William Senior (1858). “Political Economy”, p.4

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• Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate. In this respect there was in the past a change of mentality, in which the law and the need for punishment were obscured. Ultimately this also narrowed the concept of law, which in fact is not only just being nice or courteous, but is found in the truth. And another component of the truth is that I must punish the one who has sinned against real love

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Real, Nice, Past

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• A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

  Thomas Reid

  Philosophy, Errors, Doubt

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.224, Georg Olms Verlag

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• We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mood, Prophet, Packs

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• Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of a claim to be thought a good fencer.To my vision his merits have still seemed to dwindle,Since I have found him allied with the great Dr T[yndall]While I have, for my part, grown cockier and cockier,Since I found an ally in yourself, Mr L[ockyer]And am always, in consequence, thoroughly willin',To perform in the pages of Nature's M[acmillan].

  Peter Tait

  Vision, Pages, Merit

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• Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

  Joseph Heller

  Nurse, Trying, Wonderful

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before seen. "An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness- you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.""You were sent here so you could save the others," she said. "Because you'd had the sickness, you were strong enough to nurse them through it. They did a good thing when they took you in, and you saved them for their good act. Now the circle that began when I found you is complete.

  Louise Erdrich

  Strong, Islands, Circles

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• I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Adventure, Work Out, Lines

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• That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Winning, Way

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• The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and found nothing. That proves life is rarer than we hoped, but does not prove that the universe is lifeless. We are only now developing the tools to make our searches efficient and far-reaching, as optical and radio detection and data processing move forward.

  Freeman Dyson

  Moving, Years, Data

  "Freeman Dyson forecasts the future" by Freeman Dyson, www.newscientist.com. November 2006.

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• Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Language, Used, Programming

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• The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

  Robert Henri

  Education, Learning, Ignorant

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't win.

  David Brooks

  Winning, Average, Years

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• Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

  John Huston

  Keys, Flow, Firsts

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• We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Home, Men, Battle

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1962). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Men, Type

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• Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

  Jacques Chirac

  Europe, Joining, Way

  "Chirac Lashes Out at 'New Europe'". edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2003.

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• The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

  Nat King Cole

  Agency, Prejudice, Tvs

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• Nobody wanted to touch Decline III when they found out what it was about.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Aggravation, Decline, Wanted

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• To the extent that you eliminate ego from your activities, God comes into them - but no more and no less. Begin with that, and let it cost you your uttermost. In this way, and no other, is true peace to be found.

  Meister Eckhart

  Ego, Cost, Way

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• A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point or I didn't have a picture. This is what I've always found so fascinating about paparazzi pictures. They catch something unintended, on the wing... they get that thing. It's the revelation of personality.

  Diana Vreeland

  Wings, Personality, Photograph

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