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I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. ↗

— Pythagoras

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Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. ↗

— Pythagoras

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I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return. ↗

— Mike Quade

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. ↗

— Saul Williams

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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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