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A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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A time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... They should see the planets like our earth.
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A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
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A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
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A word carries far - very far - deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in Gates, Buffett a bit bearish CNET News (2 July 1998) -
Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
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Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
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Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
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