Paper Quotes
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If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn't denominated by digital friends, designer logos, or wads of paper notes. It's denominated by what you've lived, what it's worth to you, and what that's worth to humanity.
Umair Haque
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Paper is the strongest material in the world; paper can handle what I can't.
Nadeem Aslam
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Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.
William Morris Hunt
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Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.
Shakuntala Devi
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You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.
Laini Taylor
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I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.
Oscar De La Hoya
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Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
Brian Tracy
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Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn and dead, participates - men are no more than bits of paper blown on the cold wind.
George Mackay Brown
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Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on the football field.
Mike McCarthy
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God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
Alvar Aalto
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My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.
Nicki Minaj
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Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.
Tim Ferriss
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A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.
Otto Loewi
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Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."
Gautama Buddha
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Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
Andy Rooney
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One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
Robert Wyatt
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So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.
Erving Goffman
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I'm drowning in papers.
Wislawa Szymborska
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If I get it all down on paper, it’s no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.
Anna Nalick
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There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.
Carrie Jones
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I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.
Napoleon Bonaparte