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• Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.

  William Blum

  War, Men, Air

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• Oh, I love making independent films, it's such a special, magical thing because you collaborate with a small group of people and everyone's pitching in. You'll see producers setting up the lunch table and the sound guy driving a van. We're all really there because we want to be.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Independent, Lunch, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was at a restaurant and I heard this little voice at a nearby table pipe up and say, 'I believe I will have the chowder.' I got up and walked out into the middle of the restaurant. There was Sterling Holloway just sitting there being Sterling Holloway. Never in a million years would I have imagined that I'd have the honor of filling his shoes. I just regret not going up to him and saying hello.

  Jim Cummings

  Regret, Believe, Years

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• From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat? Who made the bread? Where did it come from? You are in relationship with all who brought it to the table. We are least separate and most in common when we eat and drink.

  Thomas Merton

  Pieces, World, Mouths

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• The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects.

  James Gleick

  Fall, Blow, Ideas

  James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made cooking seem much more complicated than it is, and part of that comes from watching cooking shows on television-we've turned cooking into a spectator sport. ...My wife and I both work, and we can get a very nice dinner on the table in a half hour. It would not take any less time for us to drive to a fast-food outlet and order, sit down, and bus our table.

  Michael Pollan

  Sports, Nice, Thinking

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• My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

  Honore de Balzac

  Writing, My Thoughts, Plans

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• When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it's because it's entrenched ideology. You can't solve a problem if you're sitting down with people who say, "All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe."

  Steven Soderbergh

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Hopefully, every character that I take on, as I grow older, becomes more interesting. Obviously, as I grow older, I have more to bring to the table and more experiences that I've lived myself, so I'm hoping that I can color my characters, more and more.

  Diane Kruger

  Character, Color, Interesting

  "Diane Kruger Talks THE BRIDGE Season 2, Emotional Stoicism, Her Character’s Complexity, Differences from Season 1, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 9, 2014.

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• He [D'Artangnan] succumbs to her [Miledy Winter] level of seduction and gives into it. It's only when the series starts to progress that he realizes what she's doing, and the tables turn slightly. But that relationship really pays homage to how D'Artagnan can be easily swayed. You see him grow into somebody who can actually make a decision where he's not being used and forced into doing something that he doesn't want to do.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Winter, Giving, Decision

  Source: collider.com

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• Topical-sketch writing were incredibly rational and well reasoned: don't do a joke if the subject doesn't deserve it. An ad hominem attack on someone might get you a cheap laugh, but it doesn't earn you any long-term trust. The biggest rule was: you attack whoever's in power. Don't bring your personal bias to the table.

  Michael Schur

  Writing, Long, Laughing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else...

  Bill Nye

  Brain, Body, Information

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy: Don't Worry, Your Phone Isn't Making You Dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, gizmodo.com. March 19, 2010.

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• The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance; we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries.

  Garrison Keillor

  Greatness, America, People

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• My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

  Sue Grafton

  Knives, Jars, Mayonnaise

  Sue Grafton (2011). “D is for Deadbeat”, p.112, Pan Macmillan

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• [T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.

  Zell Miller

  Cutting, Government, Reform

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• The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances.

  Epicurus

  Drinking, Sea, Dancing

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• If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to.

  Tara Reid

  Two, Want, Months

  "Tara Reid Tops Party Animal Poll". www.sfgate.com. October 13, 2005.

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• Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.

  Eileen Atkins

  Mean, Fame, Restaurants

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• You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Ideas, Calculations, No Idea

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• When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.

  Chris DeWolfe

  Mom, Growing Up, Dad

  "The man who put teenagers' lives online". Interview with Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2006.

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• Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

  Bernie Sanders

  Struggle, Kids, College

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Jun 24, 2015

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• I used to anticipate my childhood birthday parties as if each were an annual coronation. Like most kids, I loved sitting at the head of the table with a crown on my head.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Party, Kids, Childhood

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• Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Hot, Bread, Biscuits

  Sarah Josepha Hale (2012). “Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Believe, Foundation, Hot

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• The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.

  Chauncey Depew

  Gentleman, Breakfast, Enough

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