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  • Cyril Connolly Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Ben Horowitz In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Bipasha Basu In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Anne Tyler In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Beck In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Agnes Smedley In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Clarence Day Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
    Clarence Day
    American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Alexander Hamilton It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Sir Richard Steele It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Aldous Huxley It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Antony Hewish Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.
    Antony Hewish
    British radio astronomer (1924 - )
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  • Horace Mann Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Stephen Leacock Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Alicia Silverstone Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.
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  • Toni Morrison Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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