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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in Gates, Buffett a bit bearish CNET News (2 July 1998) -
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
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Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
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Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.
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In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Gift from the Sea (1955) p. 114 -
People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
Cocaine Nights (1996) -
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)Bronislaw Malinowski
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942) -
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
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They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
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To write it - three months, to conceive it - three minutes. To collect the data in it - all my life.
Zelf-interview over This Side of Paradise -
We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.
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What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218 -
What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
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When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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