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• A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Doe, Fool, Erasers

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• The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

  Norbert Wiener

  Success, Math, Games

  "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.

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• As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.

  Ruth Beebe Hill

  Paper, Anthropologists, One Thing

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• What Republicans want to do is to put doctors and patients and patients' families back in charge of people's health care rather than having pencil pushers of the government or in some insurance office doing that job.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Jobs, Doctors, Government

  Source: www.npr.org

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• To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.

  David Rees

  Jobs, Real, Rights

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I shaved away my teeth and made them into little pencil points for nice teeth, that's kind of weird if you think about it. I was a notorious teeth-grinder, so all my front teeth became a couple millimeters shorter.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Couple, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Stories, Use

  "Chuck Palahnuik On "Choke"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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• I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Son, Years, Lucky

  Source: variety.com

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• I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing where the usual ones and eventually then you graduated from the tools when the work increases and you start to draw by freehand as precise as possible and as accurate as possible, and I was pretty good at that.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Drawing, Usual, Tools

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Art, Reflection, Years

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.91

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• For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indiansand hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Hunting, Race

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.70, Trajectory Inc

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• Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Joy, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.116, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Our four-year-old, like a lot of kids, you introduce him to an iPad and he quite quickly gets drawn in in a way that you're like, "Wow, I've got to stage an intervention here." He picked up on gaming terminology really quickly. If you say, "Keep practicing holding a pencil and see if you can draw a letter, the alphabet," he understands that if you do that you've unlocked Level Two.

  Charlie Brooker

  Kids, Years, Two

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.

  Katerina Graham

  Summer, Long, Pants

  "Exclusive: The Vampire Diaries' Kat Graham on Heartbreak, The Spice Girls, and Wearing Black in the Summer". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 20, 2012.

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• All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.

  Elihu Burritt

  Beautiful, Art, Order

  Elihu Burritt, Mary Botham Howitt (1854). “Thoughts and things at home and abroad”, p.72

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• Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Team, Guy, Style

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils and that kid of stuff. I'd paint birds. Anything that moved, stuff like that.

  Paul Laffoley

  Kids, Oil, Years

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Dark, Doors

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.3, Delta

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• I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

  Stephan Pastis

  Book, Character, Drawing

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• Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.

  Chris Kilham

  Medicine, Made, Diets

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• I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, Bars, Balls

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• People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.

  Mae Jemison

  Country, Mean, Technology

  "A Space to Call Her Own". Interview with Paula Lipp, www.graduatingengineer.com. September 29, 1999.

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• The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

  Norbert Wiener

  Math, Fields, Logic

  "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.

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• I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.

  Gerard Way

  Voice, Old Habits, Listening

  "My Chemical romance 'can never die', Gerard Way says" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. March 25, 2013.

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• I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Sticks, Tables, Height

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