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  • Ben Gibbard A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Garrison Keillor A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • E. B. White A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Samuel Johnson A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Augustus Hare A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Thomas Beecham A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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  • Sir Thomas Beecham A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
    Sir Thomas Beecham
    English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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  • Barry Ritholtz A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bennett Cerf A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Ben Elliot A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • W. H. Auden A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • James John Walker A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.
    James John Walker
    American politician (1881 - 1946)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Isaac Asimov A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
    Eerste wet voor robots
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • William Hazlitt A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Carlo Collodi A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Robertson Davies A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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