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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Henry Miller Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anita Diamant Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi Upon awakening he discovered that he was no longer a wooden puppet, but that he had become instead a boy, like all other boys.
    Source: Pinocchio (1892)
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Billy Evans Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Ben Stein Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Ann Coulter Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Malcolm X Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Russell Baker Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Usually, when you get early versions of scripts, they are not very good. I found 'Borgen' amazing from the very first read-through because of how fast-paced and gripping it was. It felt more international because of the way it didn't dwell on the characters' personal lives as many Danish shows used to, but still, nobody thought it would travel.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Burnie Burns Usually, YouTube channels are named after the person that you see on camera... or in the case of ours, it could have been the show, but we didn't even name the company 'Red vs. Blue.' We named it something else to give people the idea that we were going to be doing more than that.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Bernard Joseph Saurin Valor is common but great souls are rare.
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  • Billy Campbell Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • George Santayana Variation is a consequence of freedom, and the slight but radical diversity of souls in turn makes freedom requisite.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Barbara Deming Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
    Source: We are all part of one another
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Billy Collins Very few people have actually read Freud, but everyone seems prepared to talk about him in that Woody Allen way. To read Freud is not as much fun.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
    Source: Press conferentie, 21-04-1961 (na de Bay of Pigs)
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bill Budge Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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