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Stephen Jay Gould

"With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot."

- Stephen Jay Gould

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Anne McCaffrey

“I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.”

- Anne McCaffrey

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Roy Lichtenstein

“Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.”

- Roy Lichtenstein

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Jermaine Dupri

“When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.”

- Jermaine Dupri

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Thomas Muster

“To work a vineyard, you need a lot of guts to do that. To go out there and work all year, you almost feel that these people talk to the grapes. Wine is a lifestyle, and you can talk about it for ages. It's a passion, but it's not something I can do on a daily basis.”

- Thomas Muster

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Annie Potts

“They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.”

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Guillermo del Toro

“The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.”

- Guillermo del Toro

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Nathan Hale

“Shun all vice, especially card playing.”

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Drummond Money-Coutts

“I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.”

- Drummond Money-Coutts

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Joseph McKenna

“The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.”

- Joseph McKenna

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Kate Adie

“Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.”

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Effa Manley

“Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.”

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Grace Napolitano

“I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.”

- Grace Napolitano

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Alberta Hunter

“I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing,...”

- Alberta Hunter

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Alfred Ainger

“March we forth in the strength of God With the banner of Christ unfurled, That the light of the glorious gospel of truth May shine throughout the World.”

- Alfred Ainger

Source/Notes: Hymn God is working his purpose out

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Robin S. Sharma

“We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human connection.”

- Robin S. Sharma

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Samuel E. Morison

“If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.”

- Samuel E. Morison

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Muddy Waters

“I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.”

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