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• When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was. I know I sound like my grandfather right now. We didn't have teeth! There were no questions marks, we just had words! What was I talking about? The Internet...Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.

  Dick Costolo

  Impact, Talking, Grandfather

  Dick Costolo's Commencement Address at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, www.c-span.org. May 4, 2013.

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• I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.

  Jenny Saville

  Art, Children, Thinking

  "Jenny Saville: 'I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies'" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.

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• Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

  Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

  Doe, History Repeats Itself, Said

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• The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested in marks on the panels than the 'presence' of the panels themselves. In Red Yellow Blue III the square panels present color. It was made to exist forever in the present; it is an idea and can be repeated anytime in the future.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Ideas, Yellow, Squares

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• The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!

  Heinz Kohut

  Crazy, Good Marriage

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• I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

  David LaChapelle

  Fashion, Glamour, Civilisation

  "David LaChapelle: 'Fashion, beauty and glamour are the mark of civilisation'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2012.

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• Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Defeat, Psychological, Victim

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• If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Eye, Dark, Hair

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.108, Library of America

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• The way we use our money is a barometer of our present spiritual condition. Our neglect of the poor illustrates much about where our hearts lie. But even more than that, the way we use our money is an indicator of our eternal destination. The mark of Christ followers is that their hearts are in heaven and their treasures are spent there

  David Platt

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

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• I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Ideas, Faces, Arbitrary

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• Out of pure spite we pretty much always said the opposite of what the other said, no matter what they said, only to mark distance. That's how we ended up calling ourselves Satanists, despite the fact that we absolutely were not. There was not a single Satanist in the whole Black Metal scene in Norway in 1991-92.

  Varg Vikernes

  Distance, Opposites, Black

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• Son, a man’d brand
  Is his own special mark
  That says this is mine, leave it alone.
  You hire out to a man,
  Ride for his brand
  And protect it like it was your own.

  Red Steagall

  Son, Men, Special

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• History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot

  Roots, Challenges, Analysis

  Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2015). “Silencing the Past (20th anniversary edition): Power and the Production of History”, p.11, Beacon Press

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• Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

  Margaret Visser

  Perception, Western Culture, Modern

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.276, Open Road Media

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• Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.

  Katherine Center

  Smile, Heartbreak, Adventure

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• It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction.

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn

  Firsts, Bears, Egyptian

  Alvin Boyd Kuhn (2013). “The Ultimate Canon of Knowledge”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to life. He shot lions and leopards because he bloody well liked to hunt and shoot, and killing was the best punctuation mark at the end of the intricate and fascinating process of hunting.

  Robert Ruark

  Hunting, Punctuation Marks, Leopards

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• Colour does not make so much difference. Look at the Bach Chaconne: There is not one dynamic mark in the whole Bach Chaconne. Colours do not make so much difference.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Differences, Doe, Looks

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• Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

  Joan Ganz Cooney

  Children, Society, Cherish

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• A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

  Alice Stone Blackwell

  Success, Pain, Women

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• It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Men, Errors, Brain

  Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”

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• The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Race, Humanity, Library

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• Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands and those who fail to participate in this great rivalry will play a pitiable role in time to come.

  Heinrich von Treitschke

  Land, Play, People

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• It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Graphic Design, Immortality, Mathematics

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.

  W. W. Sawyer

  Education, Math, Growth

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