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• You probably know the name of Rosa Parks. You probably know that her refusal to move to the colored section in the back of a city bus sparked the Montgomery bus boycotts, one of the pivotal moments in the American civil rights movement.

  Michel Martin

  Moving, Cities, Names

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to keep his small personal commentarie to himself, as one does at the sight of the sea or of majestic mountains, unless he knows himself to be called and gifted to give them expression in artistic or prophetic form. In most other cases, the voluminous talk about intuition does nothing but conceal a lack of perspective toward the object, which merits the same judgement as a similar lack of perspective toward men.

  Max Weber

  Destiny, Men, Sight

  Max Weber (1930). “The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism”

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• During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.

  Max Brooks

  Wall, Book, Flames

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.186, Broadway Books

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• Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.

  Charles Landry

  Technology, Order, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.

  Dave Barry

  Knowing, Trying, Stories

  "Secrets of a Two-Time Pulitzer Winner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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• What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.

  Chris Hart

  Character, Reality, Race

  Source: blog.roundabouttheatre.org

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• Who in their right mind ever thought that the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant converted to citizenship? A lot of people believe it. It's not in the 14th Amendment. You know where it is? It's in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Children, Believe, People

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• The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real or substantial. It was calculated to intensify and compound the adverse psychological effects of the war by exploiting the backward outlook of large sections of Arab society and their role in the community. The intention was to achieve adverse psychological effects by saying to Arabs that they were defeated, in 1967, by women.

  Saddam Hussein

  Military, Real, War

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• I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

  Randy Pausch

  Dying, Bookstores, Professors

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• Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Impact, Needs, Bookstores

  Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.4, Penguin

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• Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.

  Isaac Asimov

  Mistake, Stories, Subtle

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Gods Themselves”, p.3, Spectra

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• If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser – and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop.

  Francis Spufford

  Memories, Book, Reading

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• I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our balance sheet as calculated are wrong. But it's the standard way of doing it. It's holy writ. The SEC wants us to do it that way, and we'll do it that way, and I'll explain why I think it's wrong and shareholders can read it and see whether they agree with my logic or don't.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Balance

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.

  Ray Bradbury

  Song, Book, Reading

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Men, Personality

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was a section commander in the parachute regiment [in the British army].

  Scott Raab

  Army, British, Parachutes

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I feel that women and men should free themselves up. It took me a while to get over my dysphoria about shopping in the men's section, trying on men's clothes, but when I was thinking about my life and the kind of woman I wanted to be, it was never just this by-the-book feminine thing.

  Hari Nef

  Book, Men, Thinking

  Source: wwd.com

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• They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.

  Aldis Hodge

  Growing Up, Book, Kids

  "Aldis Hodge Emerges from the Underground". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2016.

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• I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.

  B.J. The Chicago Kid

  Song, People, Radio

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• [Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

  George Orwell

  Political Language, House, Together

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

  Cecily McMillan

  Moving, White, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book is going - -I want to experience that, too. What I found out is that it's very interesting, but it takes much longer because you have so many false starts. You take wrong turns and you have to go back and start the whole chapter, or the whole section, from scratch.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Book, Knowing, Work Out

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had a great book section. So I went in there all the time. The woman who worked there - which I feel so bad; I've forgotten her name - she handed me the book and she said, "Hey, you should read this. I think it would make a good movie." I remember reading the back of it and I was like, "Huh." Then I just devoured the book and I was so moved by it and said, "Why don't we start developing this into a film?" So that's how it ['Into the Forest'] all started.

  Ellen Page

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Into The Forest: Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood Survive a Quiet Apocalypse". Interview with Don Kaye, www.denofgeek.com. July 28, 2016.

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• Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.

  Donald Trump

  Crosses, Assets

  "Executive Talk: Donald Trump Jr. bullish on Russia and few emerging markets" by Hazel Heyer, www.eturbonews.com. September 15, 2008.

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• I'm a former federal prosecutor, a former associate attorney general. If I had done that, I'd have been prosecuted. It's a clear violation of 18 United States Code Section 791.What [Hillary Clinton] did were criminal acts. She has displayed the facts.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Criminals, United States, Done

  "Transcript: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Morell". "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 7, 2016.

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