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• Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

  Terence McKenna

  Culture, Becoming, Language

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• Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

  Robert Frost

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.

  Billy Connolly

  Religious, Offending, People

  "Billy Connolly: 'My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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• On email and the first instance of spam: This is not for advertising! This is for serious work!

  Vinton Cerf

  Email, Serious Work, Firsts

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• For instance, let us say that a new stock has been listed in the last two or three years and its high was 20, or any other figure, and that such a price was made two or three years ago. If something favorable happens in connection with the company, and the stock starts upward, usually it is safe play to buy the minute it touches a brand new high.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Years, Play, Two

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1966). “How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price”

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• I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in the play, so this relationship that he had with the former teacher, and his guilt, this is not at all in the play. I thought it would be interesting to look at in the film, and I added stuff like that around the main character. For me, it was not more difficult or less difficult.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Teacher, Character, Boys

  Source: collider.com

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• But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth; yet by serving as a New power in the operation of industry, it has within certain bounds a tendency to increase the real wealth of a Community, in like manner as money borrowed by a thrifty farmer, to be laid out in the improvement of his farm may, in the end, add to his Stock of real riches.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Real, Community, Add

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.425, Executive Intelligence Review

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• The interests of the States... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one nation, and to multiply the instances in which the people shall look up to Congress as their head.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Order, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.347

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• The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart; he has the lightness of touch which is the true objective ... Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody, to Cherubino's 'Voi che sapete', for instance. You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, even farther.

  Richard Strauss

  Thinking, Perfect, Shapes

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• Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

  Charlie Munger

  Character, Damage, Excuse

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• In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument or by thehuman voice,--take the sound of a bugle in a summer night, for instance,--which by its wildness, to speak without satire, reminds me of the cries emitted by wild beasts in their native forests. It is so much of their wildness as I can understand. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Night, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield

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• So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Important, Settling

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.224, Graphic Arts Books

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• Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?

  Woody Allen

  Race, World, Aggressive

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• There will be select instances where the consumer is interested in paying for premium content. I think it will be difficult to get people to pay for something on the Internet that they can find elsewhere on the Internet for free.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, People, Pay

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• Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Invention

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• My Obama is getting pretty good ... I think I'll vote for whoever makes my portrayal easier. It takes time to put together a comic impression. It takes time to recognize the tics. Right now, for instance, I could do a dead- on Paul Ryan and people wouldn't recognize it. Personalities take a while to sin.

  Dana Carvey

  Thinking, People, Personality

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• I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

  W. Earl Brown

  Hero, Arms, Too Much

  Source: collider.com

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• There are lots of ways to design a workflow - for instance, some land surveyors book their notes by hand, and some use electronic data collectors. Every firm has its own unique way of arriving at the end product. However, from a licensed land surveyor, the product should always be of the same high quality.

  Mark Mason

  Book, Unique, Hands

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.

  John Kiriakou

  Hero, Years, Parent

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Art, Night

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• A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; [that is,] those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

  Sam Smith

  Jesus, Ideas, Giving

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• No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Fall, Socialist Government

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.478, Da Capo Press

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• My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Sports, Home, School

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• I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Dog, Taken

  To the Peel Commission on a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, 1937.

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• Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance.

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

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