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• Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Names, Solitude

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.373, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Skins, Foxes, Thick Skin

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• A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Memories, Typical, Degrees

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• But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Mean, Law

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

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• Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

  Karl Rove

  Looks, Republican, Newspapers

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• The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Coffee, Influence, Organs

  John Harvey Kellogg (1881). “Plain Facts for Old and Young”

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• For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

  Margaret Chan

  Real, Track, Pandemics

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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• Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

  Tom Graves

  Thinking, Needs, Sometimes

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• It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.

  Edmund Ruffin

  War, Class, Ordinary

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• The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at the bottom. Our social programs, modest compared to those of many other Western countries, play an important role in redistributing some of those resources from the haves to the have-nots.

  Linda McQuaig

  Country, Play, Concentration Of Wealth

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• It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns

  Molly O'Neill

  Morning, Uncles, Drinking

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• I love him for his sake;
  And yet I know him a notorious liar,
  Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
  Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him
  That they take place when virtue's steely bones
  Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see
  Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Liars, I Love Him, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.217

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• Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

  Rachel Hunter

  Kings, Animal, Scorpions

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• Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

  Kerry Cohen

  Artist, Affair, Housing

  Kerry Cohen (2008). “Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity”, p.236, Hachette UK

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• It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases in late years, the discoveries of photography, of electric telegraphy, and of the planet Neptune through theoretical calculations, have all their rival claimants. It would seem, that discoveries are usually made when the time is ripe for them - that is to say, when the ideas from which they naturally flow are fermenting in the minds of many men.

  Francis Galton

  Photography, Science, Men

  "Hereditary Genius". Book by Francis Galton, 1869.

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• It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are notorious, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head. Under this point of view, the brain of an ant is one of the most marvelous atoms of matter in the world, perhaps more so than the brain of a man.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Views, Brain

  Charles Darwin (1884). “Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the Writings of Charles Darwin”

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• When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.303, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

  Gene Ween

  Fans, Cracks, Imitation

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• Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not have science and poetry commensurate with themselves, why are there so many frauds and so much nonsense? I cannot soon give a solution to these questions ... It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be seen on this side of the ocean.

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Hate, Ocean, Science

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• [Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.

  Michael Phelps

  Weed, Smoking, Drug

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• The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.

  Joscelyn Godwin

  Book, Writing, Europe

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• He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

  Periander

  Speak, Made, Speak The Truth

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• For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.

  Clifford Stoll

  Information Is Power, Years, Community

  Clifford Stoll (1999). “High-tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian”, Doubleday Books

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• The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If there might be space aliens, we can assume there are." "If the idea of Atlantis is not impossible, we can take it for granted." "If the traditional view of gospel authorship cannot be definitievely debunked, we can go right on assuming it's truth." No, you can't.

  Robert M. Price

  Believe, Views, Ideas

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• t's much less daunting once you've put your foot on the road to it. I'm a notorious couch potato and I don't like exercise. Half an hour of physical exercise, like jogging or fast walking a day is a start.

  Tom Hardy

  Exercise, Feet, Jogging

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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