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• You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.

  Eminem

  Revenge, Beef, Ass

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• I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.

  Kurt Masur

  Mistake, Musical, Library

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• To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Moving, Messages, Hollywood

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• They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Education, College, Trying

  Song: Pencil-thin mustache, 1974

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• If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

  Wayne Rooney

  Chance, Disappointed, Ifs

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• Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.

  Wayne Rooney

  Goal, Said, Feels

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• To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Struggle, Kids

  "The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

  Neville Cardus

  Men, Years, Imagination

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• How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

  Daniel Dennett

  Music, Reading, Imagination

  Daniel C. Dennett (2017). “Consciousness Explained”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Work out what is truly important to you. Research shows people with consistently high happiness scores prioritise their life according to the things they value. They've worked out what is most important to them and don't allow themselves to get sidetracked.

  Robert Holden

  Work Out, People, Important

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• The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.

  Ernst Mayr

  Important, Facts, Theory

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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• To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Effort, Shadow, Wrecks

  What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

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• When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

  Jermain Defoe

  Player, Play, Chance

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• I just get up in the morning and say: 'Yeah man, I'm ready to score goals.'

  Jermain Defoe

  Morning, Men, Goal

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• I don't believe there's any evidence that credit scoring is a risk factor. What is it about someone having a worse credit score that makes them a worse driver? (Insurers) can't answer that.

  Robert Hunter

  Believe, Risk, Credit

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• The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

  Cornelius Lanczos

  Community, Musical, Satisfaction

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• There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change There was a strange stillness The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.

  Rachel Carson

  Morning, Spring, Heart

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• It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh... Even the streams were now lifeless... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

  Rachel Carson

  Morning, Spring, Voice

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

  Scott E. Page

  Differences, Progress, Doe

  Scott E. Page (2008). “The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies”, p.26, Princeton University Press

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• It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

  Randy Schekman

  Impact, Average, Quality

  "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science" by Randy Schekman, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2013.

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• I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored

  Zinedine Zidane

  Hard Work, Two, Play

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• Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Years, Three

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• There's no such thing as an ugly goal. Ugly is to not score one.

  Dada Maravilha

  Goal, Ugly

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• There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.

  Witold Rybczynski

  Book, Offering, Wells

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• I got to score goals and get points. I got to get on the board somehow.

  Stephen Weiss

  Goal, Boards

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