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  • Andy Hertzfeld Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Brandon Routh So I think it was to Bryan's credit that he was able to let go of some of those things because you create these scenes and you think you become creative, even I, acting things, you become very creatively taken by it.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Bailee Madison Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Anne W. Schaef Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible - even when those steps are taken on the run.
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken seperately.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • A. R. Ammons That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Bob Odenkirk The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.
    Bob Odenkirk
    American actor, comedian, director, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • W. H. Auden The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bill Goldberg The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Mark Caine The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • George Washington The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
    From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Alice Walker The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Leon Trotsky The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bruce Chatwin The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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