Quotes with thing-they

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  • Bruce Jackson The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Douglas Engelbart The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.
    Intelligence in the Internet Age, New York Times 19-9-2005
    Douglas Engelbart
    American engineer and inventor (1925 - 2013)
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  • Abbie Hoffman The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Raymond Chandler The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bobby Orr The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Lee Iacocca The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Billy Campbell The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Meister Eckhart The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Lord George Byron The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Faulkner The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Rita Mae Brown The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bun E. Carlos The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Lee The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Ben Nicholson The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Jonathan Swift The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bertolt Brecht The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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