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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Rebecca West Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Augustus William Hare Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Ben Hecht Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bel Powley Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Edith Wharton Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Brit Hume MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Johnson Much of the pain and pleasure of mankind arises from the conjectures which every one makes of the thoughts of others; we all enjoy praise which we do not hear, and resent contempt which we do not see.
    Idler
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ann Beattie Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • W. H. Auden Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Samuel Pepys Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Bob Geldof Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Pablo Casals Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Oscar Wilde Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.
    Time magazine 27 October 1975
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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