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• I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.

  Ben Jonson

  Writing, Player, Answers

  Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

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• When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Judging, Achievement

  Mark Twain, Paul Baender (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.265, Univ of California Press

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• You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

  Lisa Loeb

  Art, Media, Stories

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• In this respect a program is like a poem: you cannot write a poem without writing it. Yet people talk about programming as if it were a production process and measure "programmer productivity" in terms of "number of lines of code produced". In so doing they book that number on the wrong side of the ledger: we should always refer to "the number of lines of code spent".

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Book, Writing, Numbers

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• Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, Yards

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• We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.

  William Herschel

  Science, America, Unseen

  The Living Age ..., Volume 169, p. 460, 1886.

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• Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive at a false concreteness - a concreteness isolated from the conditions which constitute its reality. In this context, the operational treatment of the concept assumes a political function. The individual and his behavior are analyzed in a therapeutic sense - adjustment to his society. Thought and expression, theory and practice are to be brought in line with the facts of his existence without leaving room for the conceptual critique of these facts.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Reality, Expression, Practice

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• I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song: My name was Richard Nixon, only now I'm a girl.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Girl, Song, Morning

  "Bruce Cockburn: A Veteran Traveler Finds 'Comfort'". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. March 12, 2011.

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• Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

  Henry Rollins

  Temptation, Politics

  Song: Let That Devil Out

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• Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only a small portion of South Carolina's chronically ill or abused. Overall, these special add-on lines distract from the agency's broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health.

  Nikki Haley

  Encouragement, Agency, Special

  "This Week in the Laboratories of Democracy" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. JUly 12, 2012.

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• Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?

  Clay Walker

  Religious, Prayer, Religion

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• A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Distance, Science, Two

  Twitter post from May 16, 2016

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• When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Running, Way, Raises

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• You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

  Robert Duvall

  Race, Two, Culture

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• There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

  Phyllis George

  Sweet, Tough, Innocent

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• Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers and political contributions to ensure their bottom line stays unchanged by the most basic safety precaution.

  Robert Greenwald

  Brother, Safety, People

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• Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

  Terry Gross

  Misunderstood, Asking, Sometimes

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• For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

  Virgil Goode

  Two, Liberty, Granted

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• I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.

  Amy Hempel

  Needs, Stories, Lasts

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• You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Stars, Rap, Crossing The Line

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• I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

  Barry Hannah

  Men, Thoughtful, Afternoon

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• But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

  Bonnie Hunt

  People, Lucky, Admire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Long, People, Car

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• I'm not tied to any particular political line.

  John Hewson

  Political, Particular, Tied

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars'' costume designer, Mandi Line.

  Lucy Hale

  Fashion, Liars, Littles

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