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• It's hard to know how many rank-and-file nineteenth-century church members accepted the idea that Jesus was married to multiple women and fathered children, but the idea received support from many high-ranking leaders, including Brigham Young and Joseph F. Smith.

  John Turner

  Jesus, Children, Support

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• There are a lot of other movies I've done multiple times, like Werewolf Of Washington, where I really get tired of watching it.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Tired, Done, Werewolf

  "Elvira on her date with Elvis and the fish recipe she got from Vincent Price". Interview with Katie Rife, aux.avclub.com. October 5, 2016.

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• When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

  Demetri Martin

  Multiple Choice, Choices, Tests

  Twitter post from Jun 22, 2012

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• We now have some years of very reliable polling by Western firms in the Islamic world, in multiple Islamic countries. And invariably, the question that asks, "Do you view U.S. foreign policy as an attack on Islam and Muslims?" is maxed out. Whether it's Jordan or Indonesia or Egypt, you get 80,85 percent of people saying "Yes."

  Michael Scheuer

  Country, Islamic, Egypt

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Technique, Screening

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• I have five kids from three marriages. I come from a trailer park. My sister and brother are both gay. I have multiple personalities.

  Roseanne Barr

  Brother, Kids, Gay

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• I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do.

  Theodore Bikel

  Integrity, Exercise, Facts

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• [Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise and, [in the age of photography] the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that have been encountered before in some other museum and to say that the camera cannot lie is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practiced in its name.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, Lying, Museums

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• The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.

  Peter Cundill

  Long, Earning, Corporate Bond

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• My goal is to buy a company at a low multiple to normal earnings power several years out and that the company earns good returns on capital at that level of normal earnings. A holding period of more than one year also works quite well as the factors are persistent in years 2 and 3.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Years, Goal, Earning

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• We learn by making mistakes. If you genuinely want to have a multifaceted career that takes you into multiple industries, then I think you have to be willing to fail.

  Susan Lyne

  Mistake, Thinking, Failing

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• A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place.

  Brian Tracy

  Years, Keys, People

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• You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

  Umberto Eco

  Fleeing, Infinite, Illusion

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Being rational - along with being clear and honest - are important if we are to create the needed shift in fundamental thinking necessary to make it possible to pull this world back from the brink of multiple disasters on ecological, cultural, political, and economic fronts.

  Robert Jensen

  Thinking, Political, Important

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• A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and they overlap, but the actual psychology of it is a lot more self-abusing.

  Miranda July

  Thinking, Self, Psychology

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The first job I did was Volkswagen, we shot it in Long Beach, and it was like they won multiple awards with it and they were super excited about it and that kind of launched me into the world of commercials. Still most of what I do is car-related stuff.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Beach, Jobs, Awards

  Source: collider.com

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• Essentially 'Flight' is just an adventure of multiple realities.

  Vanna Bonta

  Adventure, Reality, Flight

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.

  David Eagleman

  Cutting, Brain, World

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• Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

  David Eagleman

  Choices, Brain, Democracy

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• When you're in your twenties, it's the last time you have the chance to experiment with multiple identities, to decide who you're going to be in life.

  Irvine Welsh

  Identity, Lasts, Twenties

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.

  Jonathon Keats

  Art, Practice, Research

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The idea of the chickens with the multiple breasts and thighs came from an urban legend that some fast-food places had developed chickens with four thighs. It wasn't true, but it is a suggestive rumor.

  Margaret Atwood

  Urban Legends, Ideas, Rumor

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.

  Elliott Sober

  Goal, Doctrine, Facts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I loved playing baseball, and the only reason I played was to play professional baseball. I wanted that to be my career for a long time. I turned down multiple jobs and meetings because of it.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Baseball, Jobs, Play

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• People have multiple identities.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  People, Identity, Multiple Identities

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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