Quotes with point

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  • Carol Loomis In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Mortimer J. Adler In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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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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  • C. V. Raman In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Ben Shahn In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
    The Photographs of Ben Shahn
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Cate Blanchett Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Benny Blanco Is it easy for me to write from a female point of view? Yeah, I am a female. I'm a very sensitive type of guy. I try to put my female hat on and think how a female would think. If I'm watching 'The Notebook,' I'm definitely gonna cry. I cried during 'E.T.' too.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Michael Ondaatje It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Bill Mumy It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Samuel Butler It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Norman Cousins It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Carl Sagan It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • W. H. Auden It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bob Woodward It's all over, he said to Cooke. You've got to come clean. The notes show us the story is wrong. We know it. We can show you point by point how you concocted it.
    Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981)
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Ann Veneman It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Brendan Myers It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Barbara Olson It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Don Walk It's easy to point when you can't heal it.
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