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• I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

  Bob Woodward

  Fear, Night, Phones

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• Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.

  Ron Wyden

  Simple, Oil, Cost

  "Is the Keystone XL Pipeline a Good Deal for Americans?" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

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• No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, People, Done

  "The Face of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg opens up" by Jose Antonio Vargas, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Sibling, School, College

  Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Teaching, School

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• I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'

  Betty White

  People, Goes On, Paper

  "Actress-author Betty White". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2011.

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• The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ideas, Democracy, Genius

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

  Wilfred Owen

  Funny, Ambition, Ambitious

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.479, Delphi Classics

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• I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

  Michael Palin

  Track, Groups, Lucky

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• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Believe, Soul

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, Scene

  "The Great Gatsby : But First, a Word From Viagra" by Marie Woolf, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.

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• You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

  Pope Paul VI

  Order, Bread, Would Be

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Believe, Technology

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• Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

  Tyler Perry

  Believe, Hype, Office

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• 'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.

  Tom Peters

  Excellence, Titles, Dry

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• Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.

  Busy Philipps

  Baby, Kids, Thinking

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

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• 'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

  Steven Pinker

  War, Dirty, Study

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• I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.

  Steven Pinker

  Looks, Significant, Opening

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• It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.

  Steven Pinker

  Fighting, Men, Battle

  "A History of Violence" by Steven Pinker, newrepublic.com. March 19, 2007.

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• Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

  Steven Pinker

  Character, Historic, William The Conqueror

  "Surprising Family Trees!". abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

  Brad Pitt

  Inspirational, Dance, Bollywood

  "Brad Pitt: 'I Would Love to Work in A Bollywood Film'" by Nyay Bhushan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 20, 2012.

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• An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

  Sidney Poitier

  Directors, Cost, Return

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• I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

  Paula Poundstone

  Years, Degrees, Obsessive Compulsive

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• Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

  Colin Powell

  Zero, Military, Heart

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• The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Squares, Roots, People

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