“ Janet Jackson's breast has gotten me into a whole bunch of trouble. ”
- Howard Stern- Copy
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“ If Tufts doesn't work out, my safety is to go back to Yale, where I used to teach. ”
- Robert Sternberg- Copy
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“ When rosy plumelets tuft the larch, And rarely pipes the mounted thrush. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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“ A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. ”
- Monica Baldwin- Copy
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“ Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000. ”
- Dean Dauger- Copy
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“ The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature — were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ I mean, if you think about a writer, you're going to write a novel that takes several months, but there's never a time you're doing anything more than shoving one word up against the next. And clusters of those words make sentences and paragraphs and a chapter… ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
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“ The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it — this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me… ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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