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  • Samuel Johnson Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William James Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • William S. Burroughs So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Stephen Hawking So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
    The Nature of Space and Time (1996)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Samuel Johnson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Art Buchwald So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Bono So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
    PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Barbara Hershey So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Brody Jenner So many girls and guys want to find a girlfriend and settle down. But it's fun to be single.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Caio Fonseca So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
    Caio Fonseca
    American painter (1959 - )
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  • Blake Anderson So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Ang Lee So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Arthur Cayley So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Bill Janklow So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • Henry Vaughan So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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