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I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting… — Jim Jarmusch
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. — Sara Paretsky
Justice is to be found only in the imagination. — Alfred Nobel
I went looking for trouble, and I found it. — Charles Ponzi
Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found? — Harold Bloom
Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on… — George F. Kennan
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin. — Donald Barthelme
What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission… — Erica Jong
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the… — Edward Abbey
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. — Edmund Burke
No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the… — Thomas Jefferson
I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would… — Thomas Jefferson
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.… — George Washington
When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say… — Georgia O'Keeffe
Art depends on there being affection in its creator's life and an artist must find ways, like everyone else, to nourish it. A photographer down… — Robert Adams
Primitive societies without religion have never been found. — William Dean Howells
I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one — Conor Oberst
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual… — James Madison
Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning… — Samuel Gompers
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also… — Eugene V. Debs

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