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• When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Mean, America

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• Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Psychology, Utterance, Ethics

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• The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Powerful, Book, Religion

  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.105, Penguin

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• Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Growing Up, Tv Shows, America

  "Check Out Mindy Kaling As Marge Simpson!". www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.

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• Can’t you even tell me if I’m on the right track?" Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. "But if you don’t tell me anything, how can I ever be right?" He circled something in an article and said, "Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dad, Track, Would Be

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Technology, Car

  Understanding Media (1964) p. 217

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• A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.

  Clay Shirky

  Wikipedia, Process, Products

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Science, Heaven

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.341, Lulu.com

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• Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

  Julia Roberts

  Towns, Wheels, Los Angeles

  "How Julia Roberts went from Pretty Woman to the world's most beautiful - a look back on her defining style moments" by Amber Graafland, www.mirror.co.uk. April 21, 2017.

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• You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

  Rumi

  Soul, Knows, Merchandise

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Pride, Thinking

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• Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  World, Dear

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• You guys just here to blame someone. You never look yourselves in the mirror, eh? You're always good. You never make the mistakes. Your articles are always perfect. In reality, what have you done for this city? If you ask yourself, what have you done besides only criticize? Not much.

  Ilya Bryzgalov

  Mistake, Hockey, Reality

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• The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Beautiful, Pay, Way

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• If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  New York, Writing, Play

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• As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Book, People, Needs

  "Why I'm quitting Facebook". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

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• A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

  Caitlin Moran

  Shoes, Majority, Magazines

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• I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'

  Steven Wright

  Boston, Years, Phoenix

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• Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

  Brian Wilson

  Thinking, Careers, Long

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• I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

  George Washington

  Beer, America, Quality

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• My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Years, Hook, Red

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• In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

  Abraham Verghese

  Cancer, Taken, Knives

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• I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

  Taylor Swift

  Our World, World Issues, Trying

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• Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.

  James Surowiecki

  Fashion, Procrastination, College

  "Later". www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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