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• My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties.

  Kiki Dee

  Brother, Firsts, Vinyl

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• I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.

  William James

  Blue, Epigrams, Bolts

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.

  Madchen Amick

  Creative, Mind, Television

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

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• ... the introduction of the doctrine of polygamy was the first time in my life that I desired the grave, and I could hardly get over it for a long time. And when I saw a funeral, I felt to envy the corpse its situation.

  Brigham Young

  Long, Envy, Funeral

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• With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

  Bertrand Russell

  Agriculture, Long, Machines

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

  Steve Jobs

  Eight, Naps, Years

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.24, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

  George Henry Lewes

  Education, Philosophy, Principles

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• There was a television show called The Innocents of Hollywood. Brooke Shields is a friend of mine and she saw one of the introductions to it, and she called me and said, "I think you better check this out." And on this show they talked about parents who'd ripped off their kids. One of them said, "My mother stole $300,000 from me as a child." Well, my mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. But god knows what people will say when this movie comes out.

  Laura Dern

  Mother, Children, Kids

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• I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction

  Orson Scott Card

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.15, Macmillan

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• As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

  Harper Lee

  Joy, Curiosity, Anticipation

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• The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

  Walter Lippmann

  Mistake, Errors, Degrees

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.157, Harvard University Press

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• Phillip looked to Eloise. "Perhaps introductions are in order?" "Oh," Eloise said, gulping. "Yes, of course. These are my brothers." "I'd gathered," he said, his voice as dry as dust. She shot him an apologetic look, which, Phillip thought, was really the least she could do after nearly getting him tortured and killed, then turned to her brothers and motioned to each in turn, saying, "Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Gregory. These three," she added, motioning to A, B, and C, "are my elders. This one"—she waved dismissively at Gregory—"is an infant.

  Julia Quinn

  Brother, Dust, Order

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• This man dresses like an unmade bed.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Germans tend to forget now that the euro was largely a Franco-German creation. No country has benefited more from the euro than Germany, both politically and economically. Therefore what has happened as a result of the introduction of the euro is largely Germany's its responsibility.

  George Soros

  Country, Responsibility, Germany

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• His motto is "Love Thy Neighbor". His neighbor is an 18 year old hooker.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps.

  Alexander Grothendieck

  Math, Years, Groups

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• Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet.

  David Bergland

  Jesus, Biblical, Best Short

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• At one time I thought the Editor of the Lancet would kindly publish a letter from me on the subject, but further reflection led me to doubt whether so insignificant an individual would be noticed without some special introduction.

  William Banting

  Reflection, Editors, Doubt

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.9

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• Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.

  Michael Moorcock

  Writing, Character, Plot

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• By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness. The assiduous merchant, the laborious husbandman, the active mechanic, and the industrious manufacturer,-all orders of men, look forward with eager expectation and growing alacrity to this pleasing reward of their toils.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Men, Order

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.58, Coventry House Publishing

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• Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.

  Benito Mussolini

  Book, Political, Politics

  "Universal Aspects of Fascism" by James Strachey Barnes, Williams and Norgate, London: UK, (pp. 113-114), 1928.

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• But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

  Marvin Harris

  Technique, Sugar, Revolution

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• Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

  Samuel Johnson

  Successful, Employment, Diligence

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”, p.180

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• There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition

  Anthony Burgess

  Writing, Character, People

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• You the Dark-Hunter?" Kyrian arched a brow. "You the flunky?" "I don't like your tone." "And I dont't like you. Now that we've dispensed with the introductions and have declared our mutual distaste for one another, why don't you take me to the one who holds your leash?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dark, Hunters, Tone

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