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• Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

  Natalie Angier

  Science, Reality, Mind

  Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Elaine and I got married in summer 1979, we went on our honeymoon and came back for the premiere of Scum. All of sudden my face was on billboards in Leicester Square and people were crowding outside the cinema, going mad about the film. It was a complete shock.

  Ray Winstone

  Summer, People, Mad

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• My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.

  Bryan Batt

  Believe, Light, Color

  "Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In". Book by Bryan Batt, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.

  Stephanie March

  Children, Growing Up, Adults

  "‘¿Por qué me Quieres?’ Reflections on the 2010 World of Children Awards" by Stephanie March, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2010.

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• And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Baby, Humor

  "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson, September 13, 2001.

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• I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Believe, School

  "AFTER THE ATTACKS: FINDING FAULT; U.S. 'Secular' Groups Set Tone For Terror Attacks, Falwell Says" by Gustav Niebuhr, www.nytimes.com. September 14, 2001.

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• Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

  Bruno Schulz

  Summer, Wine, Heaven

  Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

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• When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

  Joel Sternfeld

  Thinking, Unity

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• I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Teenage, Love You, Ducks

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• The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Men, One Direction

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays”

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• You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Mean, Magic

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• I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Sacrifice, Tree

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

  David Sedaris

  Cities, People, Example

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Peace, War, Panama Canal

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• I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.

  William Safire

  Religious, Peace, War

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• If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Circles, Careers, Obstacles

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

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• We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Hard Work, Fighting, Equal Pay

  "Mikulski: We’ll fight with ‘shoulders square, lipstick on’" by Mary C. Curtis, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

  Jose Mourinho

  Men, Three, Use

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• Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, Block

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• We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

  Adam Sandler

  Lakes, Gnarly, Feet

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• Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

  Will Self

  Space, Doubt, Shadow

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• Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

  Jules Verne

  Land, Soul, India

  Jules Verne, George Makepeace Towle (2011). “Around the World in Eighty Days”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Real, Three, Looks

  "Westwood ho!" by Alix Sharkey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2001.

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• I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.

  Joss Whedon

  Character, Men, Guy

  "Interview: Joss Whedon Assembles ‘The Avengers’". Interview with Matt McDaniel, www.yahoo.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

  David Wilkerson

  Heart, Years, Church

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