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• Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Weak Man, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8467, Delphi Classics

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• Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Army, Weakness, Militarism

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• The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.

  Jane Garmey

  Educational, Flower, Greek

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• The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, ... the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmented and inconclusive, that more can be said about what is missing than about what is present. ...but ever since Darwin's work inspired the notion that fossils linking modern man and extinct ancestor would provide the most convincing proof of human evolution, preconceptions have led evidence by the nose in the study of fossil man.

  John Reader

  Men, Convincing Evidence, Missing

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• Historyis nothing other than a collection of the lives of people, some of them great, some of them ordinarynothing other than a collection of what people have done in challenging circumstances and how they have risen to those circumstances.

  Artur Davis

  People, Challenges, Done

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• Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as 'keenly evocative.'

  Jimmy Carter

  Writing, Perfect, President

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• The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership, it would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Military, Advice

  "Obama opens door to 'limited' ground combat operations against ISIS", www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2015.

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• I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A
  lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, School, Trying

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• Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Ocean, Self, Views

  Paul Feyerabend (1975). “Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge”, Verso

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• The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.

  Ted Cruz

  Freedom, Data Collection, Government

  "Posturing on the National Security Agency ruling" by Jennifer Rubin, www.washingtonpost.com. May 7, 2015.

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• The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.

  Mike Lee

  Freedom, Talking, Data

  "Everything you need to know about the Patriot Act debate". edition.cnn.com. May 23, 2015.

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• If my extensive collection of all 53 Now That’s What I Call Music compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and honored to join Ludacris in hosting this amazing show that spotlights the best music and artists of the year. I had so much fun hosting the Billboard Music Awards last year and I can’t wait to be back!

  Chrissy Teigen

  Music, Fun, Artist

  "Ludacris and Chrissy Teigen to Host 2015 Billboard Music Awards" by Joe Lynch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 30, 2015.

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• People give me money and I don't know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.

  Bo Burnham

  Real, People, Giving

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• It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, School, Men

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• The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Art, Museums, Online

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• Society is completely unreasonable. People want everything and want to pay for nothing. They panic if they think about their taxes being raised, but if their garbage collection is a day late they scream and yell.

  Michael Schur

  Thinking, People, Panic

  "Michael Schur walks us through Parks And Recreation's third season (Part 1 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2011.

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• The Winnipeg Art Gallery has a good collection of Inuit art, and most of what I've seen I've seen there or in the few books I have. I should spend more time researching.

  Neil Farber

  Art, Book, Inuit

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A lot of my friends have been collectors, and I owe a lot to them. I'm always interested in sharing collections and learning that way. I used to trade tapes a lot. I still have a few friends who I trade music with, but it's hard to find the time. I miss that.

  Michael Dumontier

  Missing, Tape, Few Friends

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.

  Colin Powell

  United States, Essentials, Done

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything else I tend more to acquire or amass than collect. I have vinyl records I listen to all the time when I work. But I don’t collect records. I just buy records where the price seems right and it’s music I actually listen to.

  Michael Chabon

  Fiction, Records, Fantasy

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 2012.

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• Whatever girl you are, every girl needs a really killer peg skirt in her closet. I don't care who you are. If you're the bohemian and you're wearing your big boyfriend sweater you need a peg skirt to reclaim your body. If you were the movie star, you might wear that with the push up tank like we have in the spring collection. It's all about body, body body. If you're the power player you put a jacket over that and work it that way. That item is for every girl, and every boy appreciated her in it.

  Byron Lars

  Girl, Stars, Spring

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• I'm not a things person. I'm not one to keep much. I do have a small collection of picks from favorite musicians I got to play with, a collection of mementos. I'm kind of the opposite of a hoarder, as I try to get rid of everything.

  Chris Wyse

  Opposites, Play, Trying

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• My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life. I have a complete collection of all the "Buck Rogers" Sunday funnies and daily paper strips, I have all of "Prince Valiant" put away, all of "Tarzan," which appeared in the Sunday funnies in 1932 right on up through high school. So I've learned a lot from reading comics as a child.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Reading, School

  "I Graduated from the Library: An Interview with Ray Bradbury". Interview with Brendan Dowling, publiclibrariesonline.org. November/December 2002.

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• Music is very, very important in my movies. In some ways the most important stage, whether it ends up being in the movie or not, is just when I come up with the idea itself before I have actually sat down and started writing. I go into my record room... I have a big vinyl collection and I have a room kind of set up like a used record store and I just dive into my music, whether it be rock music, or lyric music, or my soundtrack collection. What I'm looking for is the spirit of the movie, the beat that the movie will play with.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Writing, Rocks, Play

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• I'm going to hold onto my Blu-ray collection because I really think it's hardware and it's important. I don't want to live in a cloud, all my life.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, Clouds, Important

  "Oliver Stone Talks SAVAGES, the Unconventional Ending, and the Hypothetical Fiction of Cartels". Press conference, collider.com. July 2, 2012.

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