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Randall Jarrell

"When we read what Goethe says about men we are ashamed of what we have said; when we read what he says about painting and statues we are ashamed of what Goethe has said."

- Randall Jarrell

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Evgeny Morozov

“Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.”

- Evgeny Morozov

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Okky Madasari

“My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.”

- Okky Madasari

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Niger Innis

“I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.”

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Candice S. Miller

“I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.”

- Candice S. Miller

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Don Shula

“Losing a Super Bowl destroys all the good things that happened to get you there.”

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Damien Rice

“There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.”

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Brenda Ueland

“All children have creative power.”

- Brenda Ueland

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Randall Munroe

“Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?”

- Randall Munroe

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Dave Goldberg

“My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.”

- Dave Goldberg

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Ann Leckie

“I can't see potato chips being popular where there's not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn't easy or convenient.”

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Montgomery Clift

“The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.”

- Montgomery Clift

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Florenz Ziegfeld

“I don't have a very quick sense of humor.”

- Florenz Ziegfeld

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Zoe Saldana

“Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.”

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Paul Watford

“A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.”

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Peter Greenaway

“One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing -- being a data bank -- and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.”

- Peter Greenaway

Source/Notes: From an interview in Art and Design, no. 49 - Interviews

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Oliver Perry

“We have met the enemy, and they are ours.”

Source/Notes: The United States: from colony to world power (1954 edition)

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Richard Trumka

“Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.”

- Richard Trumka

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