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• I only ask in all kindness that the man who wishes at this time to have my books will by no means let them be a hindrance to his own study of the Scriptures, but read them as I read the orders and the ordures of the pope and the books of the sophists.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Kindness, Book

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• Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

  Judith Butler

  Race, Class, Different

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• Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

  Kitty Kelley

  Differences, Done, Tables

  "Kelley softens tone in new books" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. February 07, 2013.

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• I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

  Jenny Holzer

  New York, Writing, Independent

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• I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Song, Couple, Play

  "Ronnie Milsap's Gospel Music". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  Sidney Altman

  Technology, Events, Massachusetts

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• I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

  Mike Myers

  Character, Ideas, People

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

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• Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

  William C. Kirby

  Goal, Needs, Looks

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• I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.

  Jon Bernthal

  Baseball, College, Russia

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

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• The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.

  Kurt Bills

  Teacher, Children, School

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• It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Range, Interest, Contribution

  "Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linghuistics (1910-1911)" by Ferdinand de Saussure, Pergamon Press, www.marxists.org. 1993.

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• Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Organization, People, Corporations

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• I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the 'The New York Times' and 'The Washington Post' and other newspapers from publishing papers that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

  Floyd Abrams

  New York, Block, War

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

  Chris Cleave

  Fun, Thinking, Psychology

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• Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

  James C. Collins

  Fall, Historical, Company

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• In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Issues, Different, Movement

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• Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

  Clayton Christensen

  Morning, Children, Home

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• I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

  Julie Delpy

  Humility, People, Littles

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• To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.

  Dale Archer

  Skills, Important, Done

  "In the Cockpit, on Antidepressants: A Doctor Weighs In" by Karlie Pouliot, www.foxnews.com. April 02, 2010.

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• I was an international studies major.

  Anna Chlumsky

  International, Majors

  "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.

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• That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.

  Elliott Carter

  Writing, Style, Pieces

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• I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

  John Dalton

  Writing, Years, Iowa

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• A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

  Francis Crick

  Ideas, Mutation, Finals

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• When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.

  Linda Cardellini

  Kids, College, Hands

  "Linda Cardellini on Freaks And Geeks, ER, and homewrecking". Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2013.

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• I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

  Ricky Jay

  Kids, Parent, Lessons

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