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The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with… — Georges Braque
In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms,… — Walter Pater
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are… — Robert W. Floyd
At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In its simplest terms… — James E. Faust
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press thatâ€”whether from fear, careerism, or convictionâ€”uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact,… — Glenn Greenwald
If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have… — Mark Zuckerberg
Iâ€™m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction. — Mark Zuckerberg
We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively devalues… — Pope Benedict XVI
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their… — Donna Tartt
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive… — John Holdren
The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends… — Saul Alinsky
Weâ€™re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term. — Lindsey Graham
The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed… — Lindsey Graham
I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for… — Tim Berners-Lee
This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting… — Loretta Sanchez
The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they… — Erich Maria Remarque
I don't think of the note in technical terms. I sing the emotion that I am feeling. — Geoff Tate
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible… — Henri Bergson
In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of… — Peter Sloterdijk

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