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• There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Political, Pockets

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• My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

  Anne Lamott

  Space, Laughing, Parent

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.143, Penguin

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• So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

  Jesse Jackson

  Missing, Too Much, Limits

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• I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Goal, Target

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and beautiful, illuminations help make the text unforgettable. It's unfortunate that we've lost the art of illumination.

  Joshua Foer

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

  George Eliot

  Self, Objectivity, Vision

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.386, Xist Publishing

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• American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

  Don DeLillo

  Reality, Bedtime, Dangerous

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.46, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

  Sophia Bush

  Notebook, School, Kids

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• A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

  Arnold Bennett

  Firsts, Unexpected, Planning

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• Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Funny, Errors, Precision

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

  James Surowiecki

  Doors, Order, World

  "After Rana Plaza". www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2013.

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• What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.

  James Surowiecki

  Mean, Competition, Profit Margin

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• People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should respect in a person’s faith is his desire for a better life in this world; we need never have respected his certainty that one awaits him in the next.

  Sam Harris

  Strong, People, Desire

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.225, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity. (Five Minds for the Future, p136)

  Howard Gardner

  Loyalty, Integrity, Ethical Principles

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• I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• I love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Reading, Book, Mind

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.12, Dial Press

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• I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

  Tara Bray Smith

  Book, Writing, People

  "Marginalia and Other Crimes". Essay by Tara Bray Smith in a book "Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Time" by Kevin Smokler, www.sfgate.com. 2009.

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• You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Travel, Flower

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Horse, Jobs, Book

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• Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

  Thornton Wilder

  Clarity, Consciousness, Pool

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• Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Easter, Book, Angel

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

  Cornel West

  Justice, Love And Trust, Poor

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Book, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving On, Experience, World

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

  Karen Armstrong

  Secular Society, Different, Way

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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