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I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.

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• I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

  

  Ferguson Jenkins
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• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
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• Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!

  

  Taissa Farmiga
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• People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

  

  Cameron Russell
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• You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

  

  Dane Cook
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• Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
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• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
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• Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

  

  Wellington Mara
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• The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• 'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'

  

  Tad Williams
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• N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'

  

  Jack Welch
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• I think the title page I drew for Salomé was after all 'impossible'. You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
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• I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.

  

  Marge Piercy
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• If Nietzsche and Hegel serve as alibis to the masters of Dachau and Karaganda, that does not condemn their entire philosophy. But it does lead to the suspicion that one aspect of their thought, or of their logic, can lead to these appalling conclusions.

  

  Albert Camus
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• The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
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• I can get motivated seeing a kid at my son's school overcome a learning disability.

  

  Jason Alexander
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• 'But of course, you don’t believe in the existence of sin, do you?''I believe in the existence of reckless stupidity,' Rashmika replied.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
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• Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
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• Meaningful innovation can be an important catalyst in encouraging resilience in seniors, keeping them independent and engaged.

  

  Frans van Houten
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• For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals of egalitarian society. But you start at the local level, both at the workplace, community and other institutions and you reconstruct the egalitarian democratized structure as well as participatory structure. And as this happens, we learn more how to move toward the vision that is much larger than just the community level.

  

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• If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life!

  

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• I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.

  

  Lennie James