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• Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, World, Form

  Marcel Proust (1932). “Cities of the Plain”

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• My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.

  Puff Daddy

  Mother, Dream, Jobs

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• The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Training, Important, No Hope

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• Who but a physicist, in the research lab or the corporation, could mix and match multiple ideas, models, technologies from different disciplines and thrive on change and new ideas...?

  Robert Gibbs

  Technology, Ideas, Discipline

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• I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Thinking, Pay

  Live chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2009.

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• Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.

  Ludacris

  Night, Wish, Politics

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• A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.

  Isaac Asimov

  Science, Unlikely, Neat

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• The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Keys, Survival, Liberty

  "In our search for Britishness, we should put out more flags - or none" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2006.

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• Offering multiple games to reach such a broad audience is a great way to create awareness about horse racing. Obviously, my favorite is the jockey game. It's very realistic.

  Chantal Sutherland

  Horse, Offering, Games

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• At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.

  Margaret Chan

  Loss, People, World

  "Health chief warns: age of safe medicine is ending" by Jeremy Laurance, www.independent.co.uk. March 16, 2012.

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• Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

  Aravind Adiga

  School, Library, Members

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• I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.

  Richard Roeper

  Stars, War, Film

  "Meet a Critic: Richard Roeper". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. December 5, 2007.

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• The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hands, Fields, Gleaning

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.

  Eric Schmidt

  Government, Voice, People

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• It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

  Zadie Smith

  Moving, People, Paper

  "Love, actually" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2003.

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• I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

  Brittany Snow

  Girl, Being In Love, Personality

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• Nothing prepares a family for having multiple children at once.

  Derek Fisher

  Children

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• Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Weed, Needs, Herbicides

  "Debating The Potential Danger Of Transgenic Weeds". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 25, 2011.

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• And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We've managed to muttle through the awkward stage of i like you and you like me, but when we both finally said 'yes' life became a multiple choice test, not knowing anything we became each others best guess. and, holding your hand is less like exploration and more like discovery. lady, i don't have to study you to be sure. you're the choice i made before i knew what the other choices were

  Shane Koyczan

  I Like You, Discovery, Hands

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• I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

  Dick Cavett

  Hindenburg, Size, Comedy

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.68, Macmillan

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• I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

  Peter Bergen

  Thoughtful, People, Kind

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• In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.

  Ben Mezrich

  Book, Together, Path

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• If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

  Don Tapscott

  Community, Partners, Employee

  "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Death, Art, Simple

  "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

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• I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.

  Maynard Webb

  Jobs, Men, Years

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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