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• Life is about collecting good people around you. You can’t have enough good people.

  Robert Kraft

  People, Life Is, Enough

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• People are born, they have a limited amount of time going around thinking life is dandy but then, inevitably, tragedy strikes and they realize life equals loss! The whole point of the game is to minimize the pain caused by that equation! Now some people do it by having kids, or making money, or taking up coin collecting, and others do it by getting wasted.

  Dominic West

  Meaningful, Pain, Kids

  "Fictional character: Jasper". "28 Days", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Discipline, Imagination, Design

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• The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

  James Gleick

  Reading, Past, Mirrors

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• Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I may see a picture of a man in a magazine and say, 'That's exactly what the father in my book looks like!'...I save everything that will help--maps, articles, hand-jotted notes, bits of dialogue from conversations that I overhear.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Notebook, Father, Men

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• A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

  Tony Hillerman

  Writing, Bags, Stuff

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• A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Simple, Leprosy

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 171, 1951.

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• When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

  Peter Lynch

  Baseball, Golf, Hockey

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into not just their personalities but the hunger that unites and drives their obsessions. She writes elegantly, and makes you think, and most important manages to hang onto her skepticism in the midst of her own collecting quest.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Ive decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust.

  Tim Vine

  Dust, Hoover, Wells

  "Tim Vine's Hoover joke has been voted the funniest. Can you do better?" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2014.

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old mystery: what has or hasn't happened in bed for centuries. Rich in insights about sex, lies, and personal identity, the result is entertaining, enthralling, and, yes, sexy.

  Roberto Calasso

  Sexy, Lying, Identity

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• That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Physics, Stamp Collecting, Stamps

  "In Defence of ‘Stamp Collecting’" by Matthew Wale, conscicom.org. June 29, 2017.

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• A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?

  Gotye

  Thinking, Discovery, Brain

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• Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories.

  James Webb Young

  Reading, Ideas, Stories

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• When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Forgiveness, Christian

  Twitter post from Sep 15, 2012

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• If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Real, Nice, Marijuana

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.

  Thom Yorke

  Beautiful, Men, Yellow

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• I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.

  Chris Paul

  People, Hawks, Jersey

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. November 3, 2005.

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• He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Children, Halloween, Caring

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• Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.

  Cyrus the Great

  Mean, Army, Winning

  "9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Cyrus the Great" by Ryan Holiday, www.forbes.com. April 19, 2012.

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• But even if you thought they were adequate at the time, when you're collecting data in bulk-you've got it. The data lasts until you delete it; the rules only last until you decide to change them, and change them in secret.

  Julian Sanchez

  Data, Secret, Adequate

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• Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

  Dale Carnegie

  Firsts, Facts, Problem

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.45, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.

  Ray Mears

  Fire, Three, Woods

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• Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from their role in the early days of collecting and hoarding the world to one of using the collections as an archive for a changing world. This role is not merely scientifically important, but it is also a cultural necessity.

  Richard Fortey

  Museums, Political, Important

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