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• Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire.

  Rudrangshu Mukherjee

  Book, Connections, Rothschild

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• We agree with the statement contained in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, written by Pope Leo XIII, that "anything which dominates the life of the community should be owned by the community." That is the basis upon which we believe there should be government ownership of monopolistic enterprises.

  Tommy Douglas

  Believe, Government, Community

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a budget debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, March 22, 1943.

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• This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written

  Ronald Fisher

  Book, Important, Genetics

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• I have got this letter which actually goes out the day after I die. It has already been written. And it says that: "Yesterday I died". And then it says: "That's bad news for me, but it's not bad news for you, the shareholders of Berkshire". And then I go on and explain what is going to happen. I know that is one time when they will be really interested in hearing from me.

  Warren Buffett

  Yesterday, News, Goes On

  "Warren Buffett: 'My elephant gun is loaded'". Interview with Dominic Lawson, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 22, 2002.

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• The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Book, Reading, Men

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Band, Made

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Silly, Wonderful

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• I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gratitude, Cheer, Children

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.54, The Floating Press

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• One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.

  Peter Greenaway

  War, Book, Hero

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way.

  Robert E. Howard

  Moving, Insanity, Brain

  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, c. November 1928.

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• I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I've written it or I haven't, I'm very comfortable with both.

  Kylie Minogue

  Song, Albums, Ends

  Clash Magazine Interview, May 7, 2010.

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• If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

  Francis Parkman

  Apology, Way, Fruit

  Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”

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• I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Team, Glitches, Able

  Byte magazine, October 1990.

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• How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Father, Thinking, Law

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• Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

  Dan Simmons

  Leadership, Political, Age

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.607, Spectra

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• When the Jew says "mankind" he is talking about himself. It is written in the Talmud, that only Jews were human beings, gentiles on the other hand were animals created to serve the chosen people. If looking back and comparing the corresponding articles in the "democratic" and "neutral" countries, one is astonished at the systematic nature of the propaganda whose final goal was the creation of a state of affairs in which a war was inevitable.

  Julius Streicher

  Country, War, Animal

  "Der Stürmer" Newspaper, September 5, 1940.

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• I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

  Ayelet Waldman

  Honesty, Mean, Computer

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• Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

  James Wolfe

  Gentleman, Lines, Tomorrow

  1759 To his troops,12 Sep, after reciting Thomas Gray's 'Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard' the evening before storming the ramparts of Quebec and dying a hero's death on the Plains of Abraham the following day. Quoted in Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe (1884).

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• A written regulation in NASCAR is about as reliable as an Egyptian immigration law.

  Brock Yates

  Law, Immigration, Regulation

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.126, MotorBooks International

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• The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising.

  Brock Yates

  Running, Pride, Bridges

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• We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories about how a toddler fell on the tracks, and it's often a teenager who comes to the rescue and walks away because he or she doesn't want any credit. I recognize it because I've written books for teenagers--it's basically that they feel things more than adults do. They want things more than you think. They want things with greater depth than you think they do. Teenagers have got a lot of soul that adults have forgotten they have within themselves.

  Markus Zusak

  Teenager, Book, Thinking

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• I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Teaching, Believe, Expression

  Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of success in preaching without notes, 3 lects”, p.61

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• You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person, he doesn't relate to the person. All these things I've written so much about. That's why I've made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Book, Home, Writing

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• The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified.

  Robert Pinsky

  Believe, Love Is, Voice

  Bomb Magazine, Summer 1998.

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