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• I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.

  John Breaux

  Thinking, Order, Firsts

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• At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Ideas, Breakfast, Tables

  "Five minutes with Mark Z Danielewski". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2000.

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• I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?

  Andy Warhol

  Mean, Men, Copying

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• The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• When the Giver of Grace is here, you run after persons who claim that they got this or the other article from Me or were blessed with this gift from Me.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Running, Blessed, Grace

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• In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.

  Robert Briffault

  Running, Jobs, Taken

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• Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.

  J. I. Packer

  Fall, Leaving, Darkness

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• Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

  Henry Fuseli

  Religious, Art, Military

  1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.149 (published 1831).

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• I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful people it attracts. It has never failed me yet.

  Barry Williams

  Beautiful, People, Hollywood

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• The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Matter, Hypothesis, Stills

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• The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

  Kurt Sutter

  Lazy, Depth, Records

  "Captain Qwitter and the Battle of the super cunts" by Kurt Sutter, sutterink.blogspot.ru. August 14, 2011.

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.

  Richard Dawkins

  Teacher, Hurt, Husband

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• However, what Article VI [of the U.S. Constitution] does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right to say, as loudly as I may choose, that I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is.

  Mike Huckabee

  Stupid, Doe, May

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• With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Military, Reading, Intelligent

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.90, Penguin

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• I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn't doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a "professional." Of course, there isn't any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

  Jon Postel

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "NetWorker" Magazine, Summer 1997.

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• Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch. But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit.

  Scott Ritter

  Military, Real, Believe

  Knight Ridder, November 1, 2002.

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• In 1939 I wrote my first article ("Intime banaliteter" [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

  Asger Jorn

  Responsibility, Reflection, Years

  "On the Passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time: the Situationist International, 1957-1972" edited by Elisabeth Sussman, (p. 142), 1989.

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• A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Use, Individual, Consumption

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.398

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• The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.

  Erik Naggum

  Reading, Simple, Dwarves

  "Is it ok if I quote?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. September 23, 2002.

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• The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

  Arthur Honegger

  Want, Modern, Composer

  1951 I Am a Composer.

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• This constitution is full of mines that are going to explode. The articles stipulated in this constitution will have grave consequences if they are submitted to a referendum. This constitution will lead to a weak Iraq that is unable to defend itself.

  Saleh al-Mutlaq

  Iraq, Constitution, Weak

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• I can read books and news articles about people who have excelled, people who have done extremely well in their chosen field, or made a lot of money, or married well, or what have you. When some people read this stuff, they get inspired, but when I read it, it makes me feel worse. Sometimes I wish I had never learned to read.

  John S. Hall

  Book, People, Wish

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

  Nick Bostrom

  Library, Research, Digging

  "Nick Bostrom on the Future, Transhumanism and the End of the World". Interview with Jonathan McCalmont, ieet.org. January 22, 2007.

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• As late as the summer of 1941, the Atlantic Monthly, then a still respected magazine for literates and edited by White men, published a long article by Albert Jay Nock, in which he proved that the Jews are an Oriental race that is incompatible with ours. He was not punished and the magazine was not destroyed, strange and almost incredible as that seems today.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Summer, Men, Race

  "A World Grown Grey With Their Breath". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, January 1988.

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• The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.

  Theodor Mommsen

  Mean, Evil, Simplicity

  "The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2" by Theodor Mommsen, translated by W.P.Dickson, 1866.

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