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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message, there are two incorrect readings which we shall obtain if we do not start the grouping into sets of three at the right place. ↗

— Francis Crick

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Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness. ↗

— Gregg Easterbrook

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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. ↗

— Dalai Lama

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One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

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In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

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The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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