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• I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Life, Relationship

  You're a Winner, Charlie Brown (1960)

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• Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.

  Roberta Williams

  Games, Challenges, Important

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• I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

  Steve Case

  Business, Doors, Entrepreneur

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• Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is because combinations are possible that Chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to Chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter

  Reuben Fine

  Exercise, Games, Chess Game

  Reuben Fine (1948). “The World's a Chessboard”

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• If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

  Arsene Wenger

  Wine, Giving, Taste

  "Quotes of the Week". news.bbc.co.uk. February 20, 2007.

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• In a startup, absolutely nothing happens unless you make it happen.

  Marc Andreessen

  Business, Entrepreneurship, Absolutely Nothing

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• Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Skills, Humanity, Opening Your Mind

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.70, Princeton University Press

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• Even now, so many years after the end of the show, there are still new fans finding their way into Sunnydale. Buffy doesn't care that they're late to the game. She's been waiting for them - and she accepts all of them exactly as they are. Besides, no matter how many times you may have seen an episode, there's no such thing as an expert. I can guarantee there are always new and intriguing things to discover in Buffy; things that you missed somehow on previous viewings.

  Amber Benson

  Years, Games, Waiting

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• Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Common Sense, Mind, Prejudice

  Quoted in Lincoln Barnett, The Universe and Dr. Einstein (1950)

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• My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page.

  Ani DiFranco

  Wise, Writing, Air

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• It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

  Sofia Coppola

  Distance, Imagination, Use

  "INTERVIEW: Like Father, Like Daughter? Sofia Coppola’s Coming Out with 'Virgin Suicides'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. April 24, 2000.

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• There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

  Peter Gay

  Children, Independent, Accomplishment

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• When I die, I want to come back as me.

  Mark Cuban

  Want, Dies

  "Mark Cuban: "When I die, I want to come back as me"". Interview with Mark Hendrickson, techcrunch.com. September 9, 2008.

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• Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

  Arsene Wenger

  Home, Thinking, Wife

  "Wenger wins mind games" by Phil McNulty, news.bbc.co.uk. May 8, 2002.

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• The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.

  David Karp

  Business, Team, People

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• Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.

  Kevin Rose

  Business, Believe, Weekend

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• The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing.... Many of the high-quality sighting reports involve certain objective aspects, which, to an open-minded bystander, are quite impressive.

  Peter Davenport

  Bystanders, Data, Quality

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• Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Historical, Doubt

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.654, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Imagination, Effort, Literature

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.232, Ageless Reads

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• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Hype, Deception

  Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891).

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• Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don't like.

  Courteney Cox

  Falling In Love, Fall, Never Change

  "Courteney Cox interview exclusive: On her marriage break-up and Jennifer Aniston's support". www.mirror.co.uk. November 13, 2010.

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• For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

  Cyril Connolly

  Freedom, Liberty, Action

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• I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

  Bjorn Borg

  Character, Play, Political

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• I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Art, New York, Exercise

  "'I like to be strong'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2002.

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• I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Medicine

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