Quotes of Reproduction - somelinesforyou

“ When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ”

- Anatole France

“ I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. ”

- Richard Cobden

“ Thank you for sending me a copy of your book — I'll waste no time reading it. ”

- Moses Hadas

“ It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ After a lengthy review of the trial transcript, appellate court rulings, and clemency proceedings, I see no evidence of innocence. ”

- Rick Perry

“ Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive If you will these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. ”

- Malcolm Cowley

“ That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. ”

- Adrienne Rich

“ We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. ”

- Thom Gunn

“ An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside. ”

- Victoria de los Angeles

“ It's been a long time that I've been suffering from having no choice but to copy information from a file of HTML format to, say, a document in the DOC format. I had to resort to all those cumbersome operations of copying, editing and so on. This utility has finally eliminated this trouble and saved my time. ”

- Jim Hightower

“ The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you. ”

- Gabriel Byrne

“ Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. ”

- Fred A. Allen

“ In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. ”

- Fred Allen

“ People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody. ”

- Elvis Presley

“ Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ Character is to man what carbon is to steel. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. ”

- O. S. Hawkins

“ Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself. ”

- Brian Molko

“ It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies. ”

- John Carmack

“ The ordinary novel would trace the history of the diamond - but I say, `Diamond, what! This is carbon.' And my diamond may be coal or soot and my theme is carbon. ”

- D.H. Lawrence

“ I've brought copies of these votes for members of the panel of journalists participating in the debate. ”

- Bill Bradley
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