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I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

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Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed. ↗

— John Pilger

#course #doing #how #i #i think

From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#beginning #build #company #could #even

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#blank #blank slate #doctrine #equals #fact

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not. ↗

— Daniel Pipes

#compromise #either #including #insult #retain

I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#cut #experienced #films #find #going

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #cannot #last #mystery #nature

I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#choice #could #earnings #figured #film

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world. ↗

— John Podesta

#effective #i #i think #ideas #order

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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