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  • Mark Twain In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Mark Twain In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • Anita Desai India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Paul G. Thomas Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level.
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  • Pearl S. Buck Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • David Seabury Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Brad D. Smith Intuit's mission, values, and culture of innovation set us apart as a great place to work. Our 8,000 employees are innovators and entrepreneurs that are inspired by the important work they do that is delighting customers and improving the financial lives of millions of people.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Kate Millet Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Khaled Hosseini It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Annie Dillard It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Carolyn McCarthy It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Agnes Macphail It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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