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• I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Painting, Creation, Form

  "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting". Book by Kazimir Malevich, November 1916.

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• I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Journey, People, Feelings

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny.

  Charles Sumner

  Destiny, Humanity, Buttons

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• It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

  Dennis Lindley

  Logical, Dangerous, Probability

  "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 5 "The Rules of Probability", p. 64), 2006.

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• When you have some skills but don't fully understand your environment, there is no way you can be a plus one. At best, you can be a zero. But a zero isn't a bad thing to be. You're competent enough not to create problems or make more work for everyone else. And you have to be competent, and prove to others that you are, before you can be extraordinary. There are no short-cuts, unfortunately.

  Chris Hadfield

  Cutting, Skills, Way

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

  Freya Stark

  May, Manners, Arithmetic

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• There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

  Stephen King

  Eternity, Mortality, Ultimate

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Sight, Hiv, Three

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• With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Energy, Goes On

  Janet Kardon, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Joselit, Kay Larson, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1989). “Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment”, Inst of Contemporary Art

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• Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something

  Bob Proctor

  Ideas, Giving, Ability

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• If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?

  Stephen Hawking

  Energy, Cost, Body

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• With each passing year, experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water. In fact, observations suggest that the feedback is close to zero and may even be negative.

  William Happer

  Years, Water, May

  "Non-Climate Scientist ‘Climate Scientist’ Sets the Record Straight" by Bill Chameides, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.

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• The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an industry and sub-normal profits seem to drive away those who are in an industry, some writers are inclined to define normal profits as the earnings of the fixed resources in an industry which neither grows nor declines in size or number of firms. It should be clear that such a definition is useless: it muddles together attractiveness and actual afflux, desirbility of entry and ease of entry, zero profits and monopoly rents.

  Fritz Machlup

  Numbers, Together, Useless

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• The best way to become more creative is to create nothing. By this, I mean that you should return to zero point. Rid yourself of all the mental and emotional blocks that keep you from manifesting your full creative potential.

  Ilchi Lee

  Art, Block, Creativity

  Ilchi Lee (2007). “Principles of Brain Management: A Practical Approach to Making the Most of Your Brain”, p.58, BEST Life Media

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• It can be a simple sentence that makes one single point and you build for that. You zero in on one moment that gets that character, you go for it, that's it, man, and if you fail the whole thing is down the drain, but if you make it you hit the moon.

  Jack Lemmon

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• In the zero-sum budget game, every dollar spent on this problem [illegal immigration] must be taken from somewhere else....No, we should not tolerate people immigrating illegally. But we need to treat this issue honestly and fairly.

  Leon Panetta

  Taken, Somewhere Else, Games

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• A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge

  George Gilder

  Yield, Order, Principles

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• The clock is just as much a part of the game as the board and pieces, and losing because of time-trouble is no different to losing because of weak play -- it's still a zero on the score-sheet.

  John Nunn

  Games, Play, Different

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• You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. As such, evolution does not come out of zero; then, where does it come from? From previous involution.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Feet, Doe, Atoms

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.110, editionNEXT.com

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• When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Fun, Invincible

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• What happens when it’s 2 a.m. and you’re alone in a hotel room with the devil’s minibar? Minibar – one; Marissa – zero.

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

  Devil, Rooms, Hotel

  "Marissa Jaret Winokur: My Close Encounter with a Minibar" by Marissa Jaret Winokur, people.com. July 6, 2009.

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• And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.

  Eric Bolling

  Buddhism, Names, Would Be

  "Fox Host: Christians Have Killed ‘Zero’ People In The Name Of Religion" by Catherine Thompson, talkingpointsmemo.com. February 9, 2015.

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• More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Past, Rejection, Avant Garde

  Rosalind E. Krauss (1986). “The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths”, p.157, MIT Press

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• Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with zero. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to go for the result.

  Robert Duvall

  Thinking, People, Acting

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• Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Arbitrary, Lines, Want

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.67, Penguin

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