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• We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

  Bernard Malamud

  Country, Apology, Russia

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• There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

  Joseph Joubert

  Essence, Volume, Sentences

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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• Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

  Jean Genet

  Stars, Flower, Order

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

  Leslie Charteris

  Stupid, Enough, Remarks

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• I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

  Peter James

  Book, Giving, New Work

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• In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

  George Orwell

  Book, People, Littles

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Class, Smell

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.163, Univ of California Press

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• The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be worth', and, second, that the investor is able to increase or decrease his investment at the market's daily figure - 'if he chooses'. Thus the existence of a quoted market gives the investor certain options which he does not have if his security is unquoted. But it does not impose the current quotation on an investor who prefers to take his idea of value from some other source.

  Benjamin Graham

  Ideas, Giving, Doe

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 41, 1949.

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• Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Blessing, Literature, Magazines

  "Sketches from Life, Parts 1-2" by Laman Blanchard, 1846.

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• That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some of the most beautiful passages in the apostolic writings are quotations from Pagan authors, is well known to every scholar... To assert that Christianity communicated to man moral truths previously unknown, argues on the part of the asserted either gross ignorance or wilful fraud.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Writing

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.166

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• Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Regret

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.

  Nigel Rees

  Father, Taken, Mean

  "Sayings of the Century". Book by Nigel Rees, 1984.

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• If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.

  Pablo Picasso

  Air, Together, Stories

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• A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

  Robertson Davies

  Memories, Book, Looks

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• Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.

  Etty Hillesum

  Trying, Nuance, Life Is

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

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• You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

  Peter McWilliams

  Experts, Hopeless, Media Bias

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• The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise.

  Charles A. Beard

  Morning, New York, Men

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• Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.

  Rosanne Cash

  Reading, Vitamins, Reading Inspirational

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• There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Country, Age, Might

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• You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Evolution

  "Daniel Kahneman: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with Michael Schrage, www.strategy-business.com. 2003.

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• Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

  Stephanie S. Tolan

  Book, Creativity, Research

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• I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

  Anais Nin

  Unique, Ideas, Should

  "Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937". Book by Anais Nin, 1995.

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• When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

  George Steiner

  Pages, Citing, Classic

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.159, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."

  Mary McCarthy

  Favourite, Chaucer, Knows

  "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt". Short story by ary McCarthy, first published in "Partisan Review", 1941.

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• They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.

  Aaron Koblin

  Get Well, Technology, Elephants

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