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• The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.

  Al Franken

  Practice, Mortgage, Crash

  Sen. Franken Speaks on Senate Floor in Support of Richard Cordray to Head Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, www.gpo.gov. December 7, 2011.

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• My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would say, "I don't care how dirty you are up there, just be funny." Because they knew me offstage. They knew I was a good guy. They knew my whole plan of becoming the most exciting comedian, visually, ever. A real rock-and-roll stand-up comic.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Mother, Father, Real

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• As I get older, I don't think the world is becoming that funny. Comedy is changing a bit.

  Bobby Lee

  Thinking, World, Comedy

  "Bobby Lee On Comedy, Survival And Being ‘A Big, Sweaty Ball Of Flesh’". Interview With Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.

  Alan Keyes

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Alan Keyes: Doing What He Does Best" by Kyle Mantyla, www.rightwingwatch.org. February 20, 2009.

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• Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?

  Jenny McCarthy

  Marriage, Thinking, Awards

  Jenny McCarthy (2007). “Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On”, p.89, Penguin

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• I'd have to say that muaythai is something special. It's really demanding and it's becoming popular all around the world.

  Jack Osbourne

  Special, World, Thai

  "Jack Osbourne Gets KO Win in First Bout". The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Art, Two, Knowing

  "Physics, 1991-1995" by G sta Ekspong, 1997.

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• Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action.

  Richard Russo

  Believe, Past, Thinking

  "Straight Man". Book by Richard Russo, 1997.

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• Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Jobs, Privilege, Today

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• Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Needs, Rich, Modernity

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.26, Random House

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• There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.

  Francis Galton

  Race, Class, Generations

  "Hereditary Genius". Book by Francis Galton, p. 414, 1869.

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• Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.

  Caroline Myss

  Practice, Self, Accountability

  "Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul". Book by Caroline Myss, 2007.

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• Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

  Empress Dowager Cixi

  Tails, Wags, Empresses

  "The Siege at Peking". Book by Peter Fleming, p. 226, 1959.

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• Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beauty because the members of humanity who have created these idioms of beauty are going to be a part of us. And I would say that we are in a period when we are discovering and becoming acquainted with these idioms for the first time.

  Mark Tobey

  Should Have, Understanding, Humanity

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• Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

  Octavia Butler

  Sometimes, Slave, Masters

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Wild Seed”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• So now, how did God produce this world?... The fable is that he breathed upon us. In his breath, his wind, came moisture and things began to grow... a message of hope. Nothing physical. How do you intend for your breath to become a work of art? The only way I can see it is that you prevent your breath from becoming a structure. As soon as your breath takes on the form of a room, you are a carpenter; you're not God.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Wind, Moisture

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• Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

  Scott Kahn

  Education, Artist, Guarantees That

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• Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

  Julian Jaynes

  Expression, Events, Conscious

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.284, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Motivational, Writing, Mean

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 88), 1986.

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• It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Ideas, Creepy, Sound

  Elizabeth Hand (2013). “Generation Loss”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Dream, Atheist, Men

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• Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is becoming an instrument of forgetting. A truly literary work comes into being as its creator's cry of protest against the forgetting that looms over him, over his predecessors and his contemporaries alike, and over his time, and the language he speaks. A literary work is something that defies death.

  Ivan Klíma

  Book, Light, Literature

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• While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and more meaningless. Any discipline in fashion has long since evaporated; the idea of a single fashionable skirt length, or heel height, is incomprehensible. The definition of the fashionable has become so skimpy that it refers not to the mode of dress of everyday people--the clothes that have sufficiently caught the popular imagination to be worn in a widespread manner--but only to the styles that momentarily excite members of the fashion caravan.

  Rebecca Mead

  Fashion, Ideas, Clothes

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• I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was the final authority on whether or not I was anything like a writer. (I'm a timid soul.) I just kept writing stories, because becoming a veterinarian seemed as if it involved too much dissection.

  Kelly Link

  Writing, Soul, Finals

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• I suppose that literature as it is won't die, science fiction included. But games are becoming an extremely important part of the science fiction world, including games that are adapted from books (or vice versa: books that are adapted from games). It's wonderful to have the opportunity to play and see your favorite characters on the screen, but the opportunity to read a book does not become less attractive.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Character, Opportunity

  "Watching The Watches: An Interview With Sergei Lukyanenko". Interview with Nicholas Seeley, strangehorizons.com. November 28, 2011.

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