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• Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, 4th Of July, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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• So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Yearbook, Artist, Phones

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• I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

  Albert Ellis

  Years, Listening, Six

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• Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Health, Exercise, Air

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• A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2001). “The House of the Seven Gables”, p.87, Applewood Books

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• What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

  Alanis Morissette

  Mind, Trying, Never Quit

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• What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Guilt

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• Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Nice, Actors, Visibility

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• Fascism is not an article for export.

  Benito Mussolini

  Fascism

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• Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

  Robert Collier

  Death, New Beginnings, Simple

  Robert Collier (1948). “The Secret of the Ages”

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• I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clothings, Persons

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• Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Jogging, Lasts

  Defense against charge of sedition, Shahi Bag, India, 18 Mar. 1922

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• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Peace, Violence

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• No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Atheism, Belief

  Jeremy Bentham (1843). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham”, p.92

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• There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

  Dick Wolf

  Mistake, Independent, Opportunity

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• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  Floyd Abrams

  Block, Government, Trying

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn", www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!

  Parminder Nagra

  Girl, Football, Believe

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• Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.

  Elliott Carter

  Aunt, Boys, Records

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• Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

  Wim Wenders

  Beautiful, Writing, Bags

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.

  John Yoo

  Use, Permit, Conventions

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• The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

  Ezra Cornell

  Men, Land, Soul

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• If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

  Jack Abramoff

  Thinking, Satan, Know Me

  "Jack Abramoff's School Days" by Timothy Noah, www.slate.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

  John Ruskin

  Giving Up, Men, Titles

  1880 Open letter to EnglishTrades Unions, 29 Sep.

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• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  Ian Anderson

  Blue, Denim, Awful

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• As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

  David Brainerd

  Errors, Law, Practice

  David Brainerd (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...”, p.473

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