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		[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				C. S. Lewis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Napoleon Bonaparte
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Virginia Woolf
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Babatunde Adebimpe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don't feel safe, I don't feel the house is completely safe, if I don't have one hidden somewhere. That's my thinking, right or wrong.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brad Pitt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David LaChapelle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It's more relaxing after 10 years of thinking that we'd never get a record deal. And after doing as well as the first record did, we feel like we can make records whenever we want. That's the biggest change for us as a band.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Darius Rucker
			
			
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		To have transactions made on your web site via credit card, you must be PCI compliant. Businesses make the mistake of thinking that because you passed the requirements and are PCI certified, you are immune to attacks.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kevin Mitnick
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sean Bean
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ludwig Wittgenstein
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				will.i.am