Italo Calvino Quotes
The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
Italo Calvino
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
J. Cole
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
Laura Marling
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
Barry Ritholtz
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
Fareed Zakaria
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
Nancy Grace
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
Nancy Reagan
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The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
Barbara Mikulski
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Now he had form and substance. He had become a personality, something they had filtered out of the system many decades ago. But there it was, and there he was, a very definitely imposing personality. In certain circles - middle-class circles - it was thought disgusting. Vulgar ostentation. Anarchistic. Shameful.
Harlan Ellison
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You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.
Joe Torre
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The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.
Italo Calvino
