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The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

~Doug Aitken

Topics: Ability Class Creation Defy Economic Half Minutes Nature Opera Perfect Pop Pop Song Short Something Song Sonnet Structures Three Travel

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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.

~Edith Widder

Topics: About Any Behind Branch Defy Depends Down Drag Go Hundreds Know Lives Made Name Nets Ocean Operated Other Out Primary Remote Science Ships Still Technology Vehicles Way You

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I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.

~Emile Zola

Topics: Any Broader Defy Even Everything Find Force Higher Life Other Outside Real Reasoning Than Which Will World You

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It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it's quite another thing entirely to support name-calling and nastiness.

~Faith Salie

Topics: Achieving Another Clarity Correctness Defy Efficiently Entirely Honest Name One Thing Political Political Correctness Quite Revealing Support Thing Truth

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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

~Fidel Castro

Topics: Because Death Defy End Formal Just Just Because Matters Merely Nights Nor People Protesting Remain Repression

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The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Another Cinematic Defy Gravity Landscape Laws Own Physical Reality Space Surely Wonder World Cgi

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