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Albert Schweitzer

"The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking."

- Albert Schweitzer

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Dev Anand

“Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.”

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Ato Boldon

“I think I'm so low key.”

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Adam Sandler

“Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.”

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Jamie Dimon

“Scale can create value for shareholders; for consumers, who are beneficiaries of better products, delivered more quickly and at less cost; for the businesses that are our customers; and for the economy as a whole.”

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Ransom Riggs

“I try to imagine the scenes as I'm writing them as if I were watching them play like a film.”

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Raul de Molina

“While I live with my family in South Florida, I enjoy visiting New York and always appreciate seeing so many Univision fans.”

- Raul de Molina

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Henry Fielding

“There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.”

- Henry Fielding

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Robert Morley

“If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.”

- Robert Morley

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Christian Marclay

“It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.”

- Christian Marclay

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Andrew Shue

“Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.”

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Andrew S. Tanenbaum

“The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.”

- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Source/Notes: Computer Networks, 2nd ed., p. 254

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Dorothy Kilgallen

“Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.”

- Dorothy Kilgallen

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Sanya Richards-Ross

“I can't live without eyeliner.”

- Sanya Richards-Ross

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Michael Stipe

“My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.”

- Michael Stipe

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Stan Laurel

“A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.”

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Euripides

“To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.”

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Giuseppe Giacosa

“Your tiny hand is frozen, let me warm it in my own.”

- Giuseppe Giacosa

Source/Notes: La Bohème (opera with music by Giacomo Puccini) act 1 (1896)

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