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Suddenly, I found I was married to a millionaire.


Anna Benson
At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.
Carlo Collodi
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson
The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.
Albert Schweitzer
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
Marshall McLuhan
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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.


Blaise Pascal
I don't know if we're on the edge of the precipice, but we're in a very, very, very difficult situation.
Luis de Guindos
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
Ryan Phillippe
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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
Arne Jacobsen
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Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that the transition was not continuous, that superconductivity was initially enhanced in the presence of magnetic fields, then it would suddenly fall off.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
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Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!
Graham Nelson
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The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.


Saul Alinsky
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I love the idea of making records that people can use, records that have a sense of utility.


Moby
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He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.


Ben Jonson
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He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.


Antonio Porchia
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If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself.


Kris Kristofferson
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.


Alexander Smith
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Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.
Jon Brion
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We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
Sean Lennon
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It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Helen Rowland
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