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“Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.”

- Moralia

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“Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends.”

- Dave Morin

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“The early pictures of me you see online, in just T-shirts and hoodies - I'm still that guy with the hoodie. But what you don't get to see in most of those pics is that I had these red clogs on that had, like, eyeballs on the ends of them that I drew on. That speaks a little bit more to what I was going after, stylistically.”

- Ariel Pink

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“If it matters, it produces controversy.”

- Jay Greene

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“The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.”

- Amartya Sen

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“I just like music. If it's hookey and good, I dig it.”

- Chris Daughtry

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“I find that what is happening here is ten times worse than what I had experienced in South Africa. This is Apartheid.”

- Arun Manilal Gandhi

Source/Notes: Occupation Ten Times Worse than Apartheid, Speech, Palestinian International Press Center, August 29 2004, accessed September 17 2006

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“But the emperor has nothing at all on!' a little child declared.”

- Hans Christian Andersen

Source/Notes: The Emperor's New Clothes (1837)

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“There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.”

- Gale Sayers

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“It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.”

- Henry Cuyler Bunner

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“I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.”

- Dorothy Stratten

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“In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.”

- Orville Wright

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“Working with some of the best makeup artists has taught me a lot of amazing tricks to making me feel more confident, and I can't wait to share them with you guys.”

- Kylie Jenner

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“If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?”

- Richard Hamming

Source/Notes: The Art of Probability for Scientists and Engineers (1991)

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“When I sold my first company at 30, I could have done whatever I wanted to do.”

- Shai Agassi

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“Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.”

- Giuseppe Mazzini

Source/Notes: Life and Writings: Young Europe: General Principles; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 207-08.

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“Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.”

- Walter Gropius

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