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• I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

  Vincente Minnelli

  Character, Color, Stories

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

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• Justin's fan are called Beliebers because it's politically incorrect to use the word retards.

  Natasha Leggero

  Fans, Retard, Beliebers

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• John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place which was making great computers for people to use.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, People, Firsts

  Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Daniel Morrow: "The Growth of Apple Computer", americanhistory.si.edu. April 20, 1995.

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• In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.

  Edmund Waller

  Artist, Play, Knowing

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1796). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]”

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• The short-term vision is: I research on something which I can use tomorrow, and for some politicians it is even better if it's today. But if you do this, you can only do targeted research. If you only do targeted research, you lose the side-routes.

  Rolf-Dieter Heuer

  Vision, Research, Today

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• The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream.

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.97, Macmillan

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• A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.

  Nancy Birdsall

  Country, Book, Intelligent

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• It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

  Julie London

  Voice, Sound, Kind

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• I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness... When I speak of drug addiction I do not refer to keif, marijuana or any preparation of hashish, mescaline, Banisteriopsis caapi, LSD6, Sacred Mushrooms or any other drugs of the hallucinogen group... There is no evidence that the use of any hallucinogen results in physical dependence.

  William S. Burroughs

  Marijuana, Mushrooms, Addiction

  "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness". William S. Burroughs' introduction to his book "Naked Lunch" (pp. 199-201), 1960 edition.

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• It is a most just punishment, that man should lose that freedom, which man could not use, yet had power to keep, if he would; and that he who had knowledge to do what was right, and did not should be deprived of the knowledge of what was right; and that he who would not do righteously, when he had the power, should lose the power to do it, when he had the will.

  Francis Quarles

  Men, Should, Ifs

  Francis Quarles, Christopher Harvey (1866). “Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man”, p.9

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• I never touch it. Not directly, anyway. I always use a glass.

  Anistatia R. Miller

  Glasses, Champagne

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• Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Men, Giving

  "Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View" as translated in '"On History" by Lewis White Beck, (Third Thesis), www.marxists.org. 1963.

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• The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.

  Al Gore

  Oil, Giving, Energy

  "Energy crisis threatens U.S. survival, Gore says", www.cnn.com. July 18, 2008.

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• Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.

  Zig Ziglar

  Unique, Opportunity, Giving

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.26, AudioInk

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• Underneath all his writing there is the settled determination to use certain words, to take certain attitudes, to produce a certain atmosphere; what he is seeing or thinking or feeling has hardly any influence on the way he writes. The reader can reply, ironically, "That's what it means to have a style"; but few people have so much of one, or one so obdurate that you can say of it, "It is a style that no subject can change.

  Randall Jarrell

  Determination, Attitude, Writing

  "Recent Poetry," The Yale Review (p. 237), 1955.

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• The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.

  Lewis Mumford

  Running, Availability, People

  1970 TheMyth of theMachine.

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• The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

  Evan Esar

  Giving, Advice, Form

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• Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Males, Vulnerability

  Andrea Dworkin (2000). “Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Womens' Liberation”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Way

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.377, Tuttle Publishing

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• If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

  Horace Mann

  Dozen, Express Yourself, Understood

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.212

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• In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.

  Immanuel Kant

  Sex, Men, Differences

  Immanuel Kant (1904). “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant”

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• Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Teacher, Belief

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• Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

  Johan Huizinga

  Spirit, Youth, Gang

  Johan Huizinga (1972). “America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near”

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• I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Mom, Home, Grandmother

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• Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. And this impulse may be harmless, when it is genuine. But what are we to say when we see the formulas of heroic self-deception made use of by unheroic self-indulgence?

  Upton Sinclair

  Fate, Animal, Men

  "The Profits of Religion : An Essay in Economic Interpretation". Book by Upton Sinclair, Introductory, "Bootstrap-lifting", 1918.

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