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On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers. ↗

— Immanuel Velikovsky

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I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it. ↗

— Larry Ellison

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I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film. ↗

— Mike Figgis

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Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. ↗

— Jules Verne

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The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. ↗

— Ken Follett

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When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'. ↗

— George Foreman

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I was directing before I knew it was called that. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

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Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught. ↗

— Fred L. Turner

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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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