Quotes with five-and-a-half

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  • Bill Gates Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
    "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Edith Wharton Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bill Gurley Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ada Cambridge Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
    The Hand in the Dark And Other Poems
    Ada Cambridge
    English-born Australian writer (1844 - 1926)
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  • Bob Ney Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Tatyana Tolstaya Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
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  • Ann Beattie Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Bob Kane Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Adam Schiff Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bob Dylan Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Black Kettle Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Arthur Winter Although there is a great deal of controversy among scientists about the effects of ingested food on the brain, no one denies that you can change your cognition and mood by what you eat.
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