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		I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				M. C. Escher
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you start talking about same-sex marriage, you start talking about abortion, and I think those issues are very very important and very interesting and very right for us to talk about, but when we allow those issues to cannibalize all other issues we find ourselves homeless while we debate about it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				T. D. Jakes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mian Muhammad Mansha
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tony Kushner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I still think about the letter you asked me to write. It nags at me, even though you're gone and there's no one to give it to anymore. Sometimes I work on it in my head, trying to map out the story you asked me to tell, about everything that happened this past fall and winter. It's all still there, like a movie I can watch when I want to. Which is never.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rebecca Stead
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Haile Selassie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I bought an insurance policy covering the inheritance tax my kids will have to pay when we die, which I thought was a good bit of forward thinking. And I always know I'm going to have enough for tax because I make sure I keep it back in my business account.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mark Billingham
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Albert Ray Olpin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If I'm on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I'm looking for. I'll sit there and I'll cry. I think it's the altitude or something like that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Quentin Tarantino
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a nation, America is at its best when we are thinking and making things and exporting to the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amy Klobuchar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Trusting your gut is always the best thing - no matter what people around you insist you should be doing or saying or thinking. Only you know and once you live in truth,your heart is completely free.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Liberty Ross
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gabrielle Zevin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zachary Cole Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In my group of friends, I was always the one who remembered everything. The stories, the boys my friends and I dated, all the details. So I think a part of me was always filing them away, although at the time I wasn't sure why.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sarah Dessen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We all have a private world in which we live; that's the place where nobody comes; alone with our secret thoughts. Our own spouses oftentimes don't know what we're thinking. In our private worlds, it's only you and the Lord, who searches our hearts and knows our anxious thoughts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				O. S. Hawkins
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We see that hyperactivity and reward areas are important when the bubble's rising. People getting caught up in it. We also see areas involving mentalizing, which means thinking about other people: Who's buying? Who's selling? Do they know something? We see emotional areas before the crash that indicate a sense of uncertainty or dread.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Colin Camerer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Geoffrey Rush
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Styron