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  • Alan Watts In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Austin O'Malley In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Blake Jenner In Miami, I was studying improv as well as acting. Improv is a great tool to have, just for the comedic timing that you get. When I moved to L.A., I started taking classes with The Groundlings, and I loved it. I'm definitely in love with improv and comedy.
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  • Cat Stevens In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • William Congreve In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Daniel S. Loeb In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.
    Daniel S. Loeb
    American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist (1961 - )
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  • Thorstein Veblen In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Carl Honore In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Bill Gross In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Bea Arthur In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Ben Mezrich In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
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  • Eugenie Clark In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.
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  • Alexander Dubcek In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Carrie Fisher In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • C. Wright Mills In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Ajay Devgan In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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