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• So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?

  Ralph Ellison

  Dream, Writing, Ideas

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.592, Vintage

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• Have you killed anyone?” she asked quickly. “What? Did you miss what I said, about turning murder into an art form?” “But you haven’t actually killed anyone yet, have you? I read your file.” He glowered. “Technically, yeah, all right, maybe I haven’t

  Derek Landy

  Art, Missing, Murder

  Derek Landy (2009). “Playing With Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 2)”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• If you love something, Let it go, If it comes back it's yours, That's how you know kno-o-ow Nonsense, Christina Aguilera! I say, 'If you love it, file it away under "Things I love". If it's required at a later date, you'll know exactly where it i-i-i-is.

  Jon Richardson

  Let It Go, Things I Love, Nonsense

  Jon Richardson (2011). “It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• Files on iTunes - and thus iPods - are incompatible with everything else. Applications on iPhones may only be sold and uploaded through the iPhone store - giving Apple control over everything people put on to the devices they thought they owned.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Iphone, Apples, Ipods

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• Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

  Hilary Rosen

  Artist, Creating, Mp3

  "MP3 revolution splitting music industry along cyber lines". December 16, 1998, www.cnn.com.

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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Patents, Would Be, May

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• Cold Case Files and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can’t stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can’t fit on a bumper sticker.

  Hal Sparks

  Ideas, Bangs, Details

  "Dear GM..Your Lease is Up" by Hal Sparks, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2009.

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• The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Occupation, Chess, Operations

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• For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, organ regeneration and other diseases. One by one these treatments and their creators or proponents have been targeted by the FDA, which I call the "office of orthodoxy enforcement," illegally using just powers derived from the consent of governed. These forms of tyranny are always accompanied by multi agency intrusions or harassment, confiscation of private medical files, censorship of written materials and threats or prosecution.

  Charles C. Pixley

  Cancer, Successful, Fda

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• If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

  Anthony Holden

  Loss, Anecdotes, Literature

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• They also can combine voice with instant messaging and online file sharing.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Voice, Online, Instant

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• File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff.

  Guy Picciotto

  People, Radio, Stuff

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• Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Suffering, Poor, Bureaucracy

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• Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.

  Bruce Schneier

  Water, Digital, Made

  "The Futility of Digital Copy Prevention". Cryptogram newsletter, www.schneier.com. May 15, 2001.

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• Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

  Julius Streicher

  Rome, Church, Murder

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• POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Believe, Leader, Teeth

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• As the LSD began to take effect, I suddenly said in a very loud voice, while pounding on top of a file, “Every psychiatrist, every psychoanalyst should be forced to take LSD in order to know what is over here.”

  John C. Lilly

  Loud Voices, Order, Lsd

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• An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.

  Jef Raskin

  Names, Length, Unlimited

  "The Humane Interface". Book by Jef Raskin, 2001.

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• The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.

  Howard Staunton

  Moving, Taken, Men

  Howard Staunton (1848). “The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess”, p.7

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• I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

  Wen Ho Lee

  Technique, Used, Protect

  "Ethnic Profiling, Other Issues Still Surround Wen Ho Lee Case". Interview with James Riordon, www.aps.org. July 2002.

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• A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

  Fred Brooks

  Independent, Data, Trying

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• My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Father, Hammers, Tools

  Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.

  Edie Falco

  Night, Needs, Going Out

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• And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beach, Sunset, Loss

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;
  As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
  Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept
  All by the name of dogs: the valued file
  Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,
  The housekeeper, the hunter, every one
  According to the gift which bounteous nature
  Hath in him closed.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Names

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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