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Everything's wrong on Wikipedia.


Gore Vidal
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.
Mary Astell
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I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.


James Hillman
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Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
Steve Breen
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Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh.
Denis Leary
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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.


Eric Allin Cornell
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.
Jonathan Sacks
I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
B. F. Skinner
Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.
Lee Trevino
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I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.
Vir Das
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.


Tennessee Williams
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Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
Jonathan Haidt
The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.
Martin Seligman
Anyone working at HootSuite will tell you that I don't sugarcoat my opinions. I heavily encourage feedback and suggestions - partly because I'm blunt about offering the same in return.
Ryan Holmes
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Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.


Nicholas Haslam
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
Aneurin Bevan
I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are often caused by saying things you haven't thought through properly.
Greg Wise
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.


Jean-Claude Van Damme
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When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.
Paul Simon
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