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  • Anita Borg We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
    Anita Borg
    American computer scientist (1949 - 2003)
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  • Bill Clinton We're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Bre Pettis We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Carl Sagan We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ben Platt We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Brandi Chastain Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Bratt Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Ann Patchett Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Bobby Hull Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Socrates What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Marcel Proust What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Albrecht Durer What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Raymond Chandler What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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