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"University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers." »Isaac Asimov
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"In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance." »John Perry Barlow
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"California, the department store state." »Raymond Chandler
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"A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere." »W. H. Auden
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"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department." »Andrew Carnegie
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." »Shirley Temple
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"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." »Shirley Temple
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"I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class." »David Mohler
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"For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"…instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities." »Tony Blair, Speech to the Labor Party Conference 3 October 1995
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"Look at the Justice department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The challenge is that CEOs now think like global investors, while the political leadership thinks like local civil servants. Getting the right policies to attract and develop talented labor, capital and diversify the income sources will determine the prosperity and wealth of the people of each nation." »Med Jones
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"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him." »George Orwell
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"pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department." »Jeff Meyer
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"As we were driving, we saw a sign that said 'Watch For Rocks.' Marta said it should read 'Watch For PRETTY Rocks.' I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke---just to get out of writing a simple letter And I thought I was lazy" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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"Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men." »John Calvin
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"Commodities have shown a high correlation to inflation, especially in high inflation periods. In addition to diversification, the commodities asset class may also protect investment portfolios against an expected inflation or a declining local currency." »Med Jones
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"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Have you got a local mind? Broaden it! Have you got an international mind? Broaden it! Have you got a universal mind? It is not enough, because there are other universes. Broaden it! Broaden your mind till you get a multi-universal mind! And yet, this is not enough too! Broaden it! Leave your village; leave your city; leave your country; leave the earth; leave the universe; leave all the universes! Don’t let your mind to cast anchor in any port! Narrow mind is the greatest enemy of the truth! The best mind is the one which has no frontiers!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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