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In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper. ↗

— Damon Runyon

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. ↗

— John Adams

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If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

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Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it. ↗

— Andre Agassi

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What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. ↗

— Margot Asquith

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He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions. ↗

— James Hogg

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At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. ↗

— Gene Kelly

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I just felt like there was a world of cartoon voices that had to be discovered by me. ↗

— Tom Kenny

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Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

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