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• The worst thing about this modern world is that people think you get killed on television with zero pain and zero blood. It must enter into kids' heads that it's not very messy to kill somebody, and it doesn't hurt that much. That's a real sickness to me. That's a real sick thing.

  David Lynch

  Hurt, Pain, Real

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

  Stephen Hawking

  Space, Firsts, Steps

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• The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero.

  Bryan Caplan

  Fall, Law, People

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• I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life. They won't come into your house and steal your children. They won't magically turn you into a lustful cockmonster. They won't even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population ... you know what having these rights will make gays? Full-fledged American citizens just like everyone else, with the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails.

  Chris Kluwe

  Children, Gay, Government

  "'They Won't Magically Turn You Into A Lustful Cockmonster': Chris Kluwe Explains Gay Marriage To The Politician Who Is Offended By An NFL Player Supporting It". deadspin.com. September 7, 2012.

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• I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

  Warren Buffett

  Games, Shoes, Decision

  "Warren Buffett opens his wallet for Piers Morgan and America" by Lateef Mungin, www.cnn.com. October 23, 2013.

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• If you have loans, the first thing you want to do is say, "Okay, look I have a credit card, if I really need to borrow, I have this emergency money that I can get, but for now there is no reason for me to keep cash at zero percent interest rate and at the same time, pay all of this money out. So, I think people need to figure out quickly how to pay loans and how much cash they should really keep.

  Dan Ariely

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Hatred is not what Las Vegas is about. We will have zero tolerance for anyone who is intolerant.

  Oscar Goodman

  Vegas, Hatred, Tolerance

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• There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

  Andy Grove

  Senior, Devil, Levels

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• The best thing about the New Year is your 4.90 ERA disappears and starts back at zero.

  Bert Blyleven

  New Year, Years, Eras

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• Now you say you have to absolutely truthful. Sincerity is the main thing, and truthfulness is the main thing and don't lie to anybody ... and you'll get ahead. Brother you sure will. You'll get ahead right on that cycle of action, right toward zero! It's a trap not being able to prevaricate ... This makes life more colorful!

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Brother, Lying, Able

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• At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.

  Thomas Sowell

  Games, Employment, Half

  "Random Thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 13, 2006.

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• How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

  Alan Page

  Football, Games, Impact

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• I've seen a lot more go to zero than infinity.

  James Chanos

  Infinity

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• The total amount paid out in dividends is roughly equal to the amount lost in trading and investment advice, so net dividends to shareholders are zero. This is a very peculiar way to run a republic.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Advice, Peculiar

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• Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teaching, Night, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3204, Manonmani Publishers

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• What works with your skin and eyes? Use that to zero in on your wardrobe.

  Tom Ford

  Eye, Skins, Use

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• I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.

  Shailene Woodley

  Actors, Research, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• The Devil deserves zero tolerance.

  William Ralph Inge

  Tolerance, Devil, Deserve

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• The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

  Bill Gates

  Missing, Energy, Reliability

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• How do you write zero in Roman numerals?

  George Carlin

  Writing, Roman Numerals, Numerals

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• The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once the dead exceed a few dozen in number. And it doesn't just level off - it just gives up, resets itself to zero.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Giving Up, Grief, Emotional

  Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.278, Penguin

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• When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dog, Distance, Sight

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• One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one should start becoming adept very early in life, teach it to children since it requires discipline, aesthetic education, a good eye and steady fingers.

  Julio Cortazar

  Children, Eye, Discipline

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.705, Everyman's Library

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• The financial collapse of 2008 got its start with predatory mortgages, that weren’t sold by community banks and credit unions, they were sold by fly by night mortgage brokers who had almost zero federal oversight and then the big banks looked over, saw the profit potential and they wanted it bad. So they jumped in and sold millions of these terrible mortgages while the bank regulators just looked the other way.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Night, Community, Credit

  "Elizabeth Warren: Our Populist Agenda — In Her Own Words" by Roger Hickey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2015.

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• This sounds crazy, I know, but you can make a billion dollars - very few people do - but you can make a billion dollars on a product. It can be "Lion King," it can be "Simpsons," it can be "Family Guy," who knows what it is. Or you can make zero. But you can't make a billion dollars if you don't own it.

  Henry Blodget

  Kings, Crazy, Family Guy

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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