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  • Ben Horowitz The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Carla Hall The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • William Van Horne The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.
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  • Bob Uecker The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • George Grosz The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ''culture.'' It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ''art'' to defend their collapsing culture.
    George Grosz
     
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  • Carl Van Vechten The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.
    Carl Van Vechten
    American writer and photographer (1880 - 1964)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Berenice Abbott The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
    Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays
    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898 - 1991)
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  • Barack Obama The change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ben Cardin The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.
    Ben Cardin
     
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  • Lewis Thomas The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Thornton Wilder The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Alice Munro The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ezra Pound The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Plautus The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Aldous Huxley The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Albert Einstein The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Richard W. Livingston The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
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  • Betty Smith The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.
    Betty Smith
    American writer (1896 - 1972)
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