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• By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Country, Russia, Years

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 267), 1991.

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• "Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

  James Nicoll

  Gun, Two, Police

  Usenet article, 2005.

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• When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over--we don't necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated--the amount is substantial. We're not talking about just lines of code; we're talking about entire programs. We're talking about hundred [sic] of thousands of lines of code.

  Darl McBride

  Rights, Views, Talking

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• Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Inspiration, Expression, Different

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• When I'm feeling proud of myself, I should remember to ask myself why I think I am of any value at all. I have done nothing that a hundred thousand other people couldn't do, and most of them would probably do it better, and they probably wouldn't feel so self-important about it. I should always be ashamed of myself.

  John S. Hall

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.

  Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

  Order, Elements, Imperfect

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• If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.

  Craig Johnson

  Running, Moving, School

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• People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?

  Ferran Adria

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.

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• It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Mistake, People, World

  "Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012.

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• A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Dad, School, Looks

  "Gilbert Arenas: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2010.

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• It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4 trillion in twelve years (1980-1992) under the Republicans. Bill Clinton actually paid down the national debt. How did he do it? He raised taxes. It produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. History.

  Ed Schultz

  Years, Two, Expansion

  Ed Schultz (2009). “Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.

  Patrick Dixon

  Believe, People, Purpose

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Struggle, Years, Four

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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• War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Terrorism, Peacemaking

  "The Old Way of Thinking". The Progressive, November 2001.

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• We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Summer, Years, Body

  "'In Memoriam, July 19, 1914' ('White Flock')". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1917.

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• In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Nature, Heart, Simple

  Mikhail Lermontov (2015). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.32, Xist Publishing

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• What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.

  Ralph Steadman

  Moving, Drawing, Twenties

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided to begin four hundred years of wars, and then several thousand pages devoted to the routes, battles and other events which make up the "history" of the Crusades.

  Lloyd deMause

  War, Years, Battle

  Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

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• For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

  Walther von der Vogelweide

  Years, Poet, Equal

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• Once upon a time there was a saucer pie. A saucer pie is one that is baked in a saucer instead of a pan; and if you have never seen one, I hope you will before you are a hundred years old.

  Maud Lindsay

  Years, Pie, Once Upon A Time

  Maud Lindsay (1913). “A story garden for little children”

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• Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion.

  Robi Ludwig

  Order, Years, Soul

  Robi Ludwig, Matt Birkbeck (2006). “'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred years of seeing humans at the center of existence, and now the objects take revenge, terrifyingly huge, ancient, long-lived, threateningly minute, invading every cell in our body.

  Timothy Morton

  Revenge, Cells, Years

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• Oh, my gosh, thirty-eight hundred children are going to die tomorrow. What am I going to do to actually save some of them?

  Marjorie Dannenfelser

  Children, Eight, Tomorrow

  "The Intensity Gap". Interview with Kelefa Sanneh, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2014.

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lines, Voyages, Ships

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.

  Satyajit Ray

  Simple, Details, Illusion

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