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I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.'

~Edward Ruscha

Topics: About Angeles City Day Every Every Day Fact Felt Gained Los Los Angeles Mind New New People Part People Read Stuck Thousand Want

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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

~Edward Sapir

Topics: Better Beyond Case Confines Constructed Content Fact Language Loses Matter Much National National Language Original Own Quickly Richness Spreads Than Very Which

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A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.

~Edward Sapir

Topics: Apparently Argument Common Constructed Creation Demands Equally Fact Favour Foreign International Language Least Perhaps Potent Sacrifice Traditions

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What we've seen over the last decade is we've seen a departure from the traditional work of the National Security Agency. They've become sort of the national hacking agency, the national surveillance agency. And they've lost sight of the fact that everything they do is supposed to make us more secure as a nation and a society.

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Agency Become Decade Departure Everything Fact Hacking Last Last Decade Lost Make More Nation National National Security Over Secure Security Seen Sight Society Sort Supposed Surveillance Traditional Us Work

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I don't want to harm my government. I want to help my government. But the fact that they are willing to completely ignore due process, they're willing to declare guilt without ever seeing a trial, these are things that we need to work against as a society and say, 'Hey, this is not appropriate.'

~Edward Snowden

Topics: Against Appropriate Declare Due Ever Fact Government Guilt Harm Help Hey Ignore Need Process Say Seeing Society Things Trial Want Willing Without Work

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Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

~Edward T. Hall

Topics: Apt Art Because Does Expects Fact First Get He Immediately Languages Learned Man Message Must Primarily Should Understand Used Visual Which

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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

~Edward Teller

Topics: Believe Believes Effective Everyone Fact Found Guilty Hypothesis Innocent Novel Simple Statement Suggestion Unless Until Wants

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Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Animals Eager Fact Find Folk Human Intelligence Matter

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Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.

~Edward Weston

Topics: Accomplished Before Composition Consult Consulting Fact Going Gravitation Law Laws Like Little Making Now Picture Products Reflection Rules Walk

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There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Awareness Challenging Change Circumstance Each Engaging Entertain Entertain People Exclusive Fact Filmmaker First Foremost Fuel Greater Happen Hope In Fact Mutually Mutually Exclusive No Reason Other Out People Reason Stories Themes Then Time Understanding Want Why

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