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• I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Mother, Nice, Reading

  "Reginald". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "Reginald on Christmas Presents", 1904.

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• If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Disappear Completely, Practice

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

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• You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

  Louis Malle

  Keys, Stories, Elbows

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• Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Silence, Important, Silence Is

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• The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

  Glenn Gould

  Past, Planes, Horizontal

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• Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

  Tommy Chong

  Hitting, Comedy, Jazz

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

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• I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Forget Everything, Pieces, Paper

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• My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

  Anthony

  Writing, Boss, Best Experiences

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• Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see what people wanted to sell me these days.

  Rae Armantrout

  Lying, Book, Talking

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• If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Heart, Moments

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• A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.

  Jay Leno

  Reading, Men, Florida

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• Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that rings and resonates throughout the great bell of creation. And the sound of the ringing propagates instantaneously , everywhere at once, interconnecting all things. This is a truth of our universe. It is a mystical truth, that reality at its deepest level is an undivided wholeness.

  David Zindell

  Reality, Sound, Events

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• We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten all of us, equally. No one can say how it will turn out down here. But this is also, we may note, the first time that a species has become able to journey to the planets and the stars. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense a stirring of the breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Journey, Sea

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• Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

  Bill Vaughan

  Giving, Creative, Sublime

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• The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

  Bill Vaughan

  War, America, Borders

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• I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, Knowing, Mind

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Honestly, a lot of the human etiquette I learned in life I learned from, like, thank-you notes and dating Jimmy Kimmel.

  Roseanne Barr

  Dating, Etiquette, Thank You Note

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.

  Dan Harmon

  Soup Kitchens, Giving, Performances

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• The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sorry, Play, Keyboards

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• It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

  Doris Lessing

  Years, Mind, Events

  Doris Lessing (2012). “Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.

  Jonathan Raban

  Notebook, Memories, Home

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• Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

  Peter Porter

  Heart, Sound, Mystic

  Peter Porter (1970). “The last of England”, Not Avail

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• We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!

  Stephen Malkmus

  Singing, Wrong Things, Unafraid

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only about 10 percent of the photographs and videotapes, most people think of him as omnipresent in my work. It irked me sometimes to be known only as the guy with the dog, but on the other hand it was a thrill to have a famous dog.

  William Wegman

  Dog, Men, Thinking

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• Despite the Brian Williams lying scandal, NBC News led in the ratings last week. Although I should note the figures were reported by Brian Williams.

  Conan O'Brien

  Lying, Nbc, News

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