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The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.

~David Milne

Topics: Applications Because Companies Company End Growth Like Mixed Other Ours Products Range Relatively Signal Some Steady Successful Tends Wide Wide Range

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There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Because Disease Hubris Out Stopping Suppose Susceptible Which Why Will Without Work Work Out Writers Young Young Writers I Can

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I don't have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I'm one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect the kids, because I want to get this paragraph just right.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Arrive Because Collect Dads Get Just Kids Last Paragraph Problems Right School Starting Stopping Want Writing

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The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But you just know when to use maybe and when to use perhaps. I think it's because of this: You get to know the tastes or musical tastes of words themselves, and this informs your choice, whether you use them or not.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Because Choice Educational Flavor Get Informs Just Know Level Literally Maybe Musical Perhaps Same Tastes Them Themselves Think Use Whether Words You Your I Think

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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Because Children Experience Imaginations Many Natural Perhaps Submission Think I Think

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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Always Balloon Because Character Characters Comics Down Funny Get Goes Joke Jokes Just Lead Like Make Observation Right Sometimes Terrible Them True Why Will

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Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

~David Mixner

Topics: Altruism Because Companies Costs Dollars Hundreds Invested Make Make Up Millions Millions Of Dollars New Out Pharmaceutical Research Sales Those Treatments Up

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I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to 'suck it up' because so many other profound issues are at stake.

~David Mixner

Topics: Am Because Being Democratic Issues Many Other Profound Stake Suck Tired Up I Am

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Politics was put in front of me. I do politics because it's the vehicle for change and because I happen to be good at it... I had this sort of calm fearlessness, that some would call foolishness.

~David Mixner

Topics: Because Call Calm Change Fearlessness Foolishness Front Good Had Happen Me Politics Put Some Sort Vehicle Would

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Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.

~David Morrell

Topics: Away Because Books Either Go Go Away Having Just Just Because Major Mean Mean People People Printed Publishing Reading Reading Books Remember Stopped Trouble

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