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  • G. C. Lichtenberg People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bill Dedman The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Joan Didion The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Ambrose Bierce To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Billy Horschel When somebody doesn't use common sense, I get frustrated. When I'm driving down the highway and someone is in the left-hand lane, and they're going very slow, sometimes I just go around them, and other times I'll be in the mood where I flash my lights and yell at them, like, 'What the heck are you doing? Get the heck out of my way!'
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  • Pablo Picasso When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Elias Canetti When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Simone Weil Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Albert Speer All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Donald Trump You have to put the idea into action. If you don’t have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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