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  • Cass Sunstein For business, government, and education, the lesson is clear: People ought to be relying far more on objective information and far less on interviews. They might even want to think about scaling back or cancelling interviews altogether. They'll save a lot of time - and make better decisions.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Beth Ditto For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Haniel Long For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Franz Kafka From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • James Thurber From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Calvin Harris From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • George Foreman George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be.'' Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • John Ruskin Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Leo Durocher Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.
    Leo Durocher
    American professional baseball player, manager and coach (1905 - 1991)
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  • Gloria Steinem God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
    Moving Beyond Words (1995) 270
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ben Parr Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Carl Hagelin Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Baltasar Gracián He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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