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  • Burton Richter What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Pearl Bailey What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Alexander Pope What thin partitions sense from thought divide!
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Julia Roberts What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
    Julia Roberts
    American actress (1967 - )
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  • Barry Lopez When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Cynthia Heimel When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
    Cynthia Heimel
    American feminist and writer (1947 - 2018)
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  • Bliss Carman When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in, When our angels stand in a waiting hush, Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Michael LeBoeuf When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
    Michael LeBoeuf
    American business author and management professor (1942 - )
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  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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  • Herman Melville Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Buddy Ebsen Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
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  • Gene Fowler Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Gene Fowler Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • William Zinsser Writing is thinking on paper.
    William Zinsser
    American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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  • Captain Beefheart You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
    Captain Beefheart
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1941 - 2010)
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  • Babe Paley You can never be too rich or too thin.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Mark Victor Hansen You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
    Mark Victor Hansen
    American motivational speaker and author (1948 - )
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  • Sir John Vanbrugh You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Arnold Bennett You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Andy Rooney I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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