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• Let us then, be up and doing.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 9 (1838)

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• Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

  Nikola Tesla

  Solitude, Originality, Influence

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• I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Best Job, Imagination

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• I think we need a 12-step group for non-stop talkers. We're going to call it On and On Anon.

  Paula Poundstone

  Thinking, Groups, Needs

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• If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

  Diane Sawyer

  Curiosity, Rehab, Ifs

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• In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Religious, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press

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• I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.

  Gemma Arterton

  Eclectic Style, Strange, My Favorite

  "Gemma Arterton: Damsel No More". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.

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• A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

  James A. Garfield

  Law, Coercion, Behinds

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• The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?

  Andrew W. Ford

  Blood, Risk, Dying

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• One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

  Anita Roddick

  People, Anecdotes, Needs

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• His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Ignorance, Literature, Study

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

  Peter Gay

  Children, Independent, Accomplishment

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• My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page.

  Ani DiFranco

  Wise, Writing, Air

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• The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing.... Many of the high-quality sighting reports involve certain objective aspects, which, to an open-minded bystander, are quite impressive.

  Peter Davenport

  Bystanders, Data, Quality

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• Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Common Sense, Mind, Prejudice

  Quoted in Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr. Einstein (1950)

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• Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Skills, Humanity, Opening Your Mind

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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• Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.

  Sarah Richardson

  Balance, Pieces, Body

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• Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Darkness, Rewards, Looks

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• What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Thinking, Interesting, Answers

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• For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

  Sara Sheridan

  Novelists, Stories, Gaps

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• When I die, I want to come back as me.

  Mark Cuban

  Want, Dies

  "Mark Cuban: "When I die, I want to come back as me"". Interview with Mark Hendrickson, techcrunch.com. September 9, 2008.

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• And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What we've experienced is an inversion of consumption, one in which we've come to prefer the acts of acquisition over that which we are acquiring, the bottles over the wine.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Real, Wine, Thinking

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• Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with the implacable, paradox-ridden nature of knowledge and experience. These are deeply felt, deeply meditated poems guided by a sensibility highly attenuated to the physical world. In their openness to friendship and love and in their fearless directness, they remind me of the work of Larry Levis and Jon Anderson. Like Levis and Anderson, Otremba promises to be an influential and important voice for his generation.

  Michael Collier

  Book, Voice, Fearless

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• Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

  Anne Heche

  Thumbs Up, Giving, Humanity

  Anne Heche (2001). “Call Me Crazy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

  Marc Andreessen

  Business, Entrepreneurship, Absolutely Nothing

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