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Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do. ↗

— John Carmack

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Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. ↗

— Markus Wolf

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Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine II

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No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. ↗

— John Cassavetes

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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. ↗

— Camillo di Cavour

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As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained. ↗

— Arthur Cayley

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I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show! ↗

— Julie Chen

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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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