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• For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still others accept and read it but do not really explore and ponder it. The book is to be feasted upon, not nibbled (see 2 Nephi 31:20).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Book, Church, Use

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• I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

  Bill Gates

  Memories, Silly, Rumor

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• Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

  Michael Parkinson

  Way, Chemistry, Made

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• My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.

  James Boswell

  Simple, Next, Firsts

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• Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.

  Susan Sontag

  Reflection, Practice, Use

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Communication requires cultural context, and technology facilitates our ability to cross-reference ideas over time. Charles Moore were saying: Enough with the sterile, context-less architecture. Enough with the functional-minded frame of operation. How about a little mess? How about a little, let's say, syntax? A little quotation using history? How about some other meanings or symbols? I think that's the only logical reaction when you have to thoughtfully manage the communication of a lot of information.

  Jimenez Lai

  Communication, Technology, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Editors, People, Pet

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Book, Quantum, Chapters

  "The New Quantum Universe". Book by Anthony J. G. Hey, ‎Tony Hey, ‎Patrick Walters, 1987.

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• You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

  Robert Bunsen

  Science, Regularity, Stock Exchange

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• A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Earth, Fit, Walks

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1870). “Essays and Reviews”, p.114

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• I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Book, People, Internet

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• There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

  James Boswell

  Prejudice, Strange

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• We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

  Michael Steele

  Quotation Marks, Use, Process

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• The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

  Voltaire

  Writing, Facts, Dictionary

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• In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Crazy, Mirrors

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America

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• It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Book, Career Success, Ifs

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• Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.

  Tom Clancy

  Reading, Sunday, Lessons To Be Learned

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.41, Penguin

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• Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to the next edition. 'Mother was right.' Author: Mrs. Bartlett, world-renowned nag. Year: 1859. Attribution: A short play entitled Every Goddamn Weekend!

  John Bartlett

  Mother, Clever, Nice

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• [A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

  William Mathews

  Age, Lamps, Phrases

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.93, Belford Bros.

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• Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Book, Brain, Sparks

  Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”

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• It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Pudding, Plums, Rich

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• The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tragedy, Known

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• All life is an experiment. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Writing, Perfect

  Journal, May 1849

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• One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'

  Margaret Thatcher

  Father, Favourite, Thee

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.

  Bernard Darwin

  People, Joy, Joy Of Living

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