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P D James: What the detective...

P D James: What the detective...

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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Jean Genet: What we need...

Jean Genet: What we need...

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Source: The Blacks, 1959.
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Abba Eban: Consensus is what...

Abba Eban: Consensus is what...

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

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Charles James Fox: How much the...

Charles James Fox: How much the...

How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!

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Jacques Barzun: The piano is...

Jacques Barzun: The piano is...

The piano is the social instrument par excellence. . . . drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the...

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Jean Genet: What we need...

Jean Genet: What we need...

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Source: The Blacks, 1959.
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Deborah Tannen: When people realize...

Deborah Tannen: When people realize...

When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look...

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Isaac Newton: If I have...

Isaac Newton: If I have...

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than any other...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: The atomic bomb...

J Robert Oppenheimer: The atomic bomb...

The atomic bomb ... made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: The open society,...

J Robert Oppenheimer: The open society,...

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its...

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Walter Gropius: Architecture begins where...

Walter Gropius: Architecture begins where...

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Source: To Harvard Department of...

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Walter Gropius: If your contribution...

Walter Gropius: If your contribution...

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: Gold and silver...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: Gold and silver...

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Source: In

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Harold S Geneen: When I come...

Harold S Geneen: When I come...

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from...

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Emo Philips: When I was...

Emo Philips: When I was...

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so...

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Federico Fellini: Realism is a...

Federico Fellini: Realism is a...

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the...

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Joey Adams: Rockefeller once explained...

Joey Adams: Rockefeller once explained...

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late -- and strike...

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Ann Richards: [Our understanding is]...

Ann Richards: [Our understanding is]...

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Source: Female vs....

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Johnny Carson: The difference between...

Johnny Carson: The difference between...

The difference between divorce and legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: Evil is the...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Evil is the...

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

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