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A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. ↗

— Bill Gates

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There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. ↗

— Bill Gates

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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

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A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me. ↗

— Boy George

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I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe. ↗

— Elizabeth George

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After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

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Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

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Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

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