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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

~David Herbert Donald

Topics: Argument Carefully Cons Could Debated Draw Figure Had He Himself Kind Lincoln List Might Often Out Person Pros Public Result Talk Test Them Up Would

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Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.

~David Horowitz

Topics: Although Conservatives Convinced Deal Disturbing Duplicate Exactly Figure He How Left Number Obama Out People Please Right Mr

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Yes, the disruption of the Internet can be blamed for the destruction of the business model that once made journalism a thriving, well-paying enterprise, but it has also created an array of new tools for reporting. Somebody will eventually figure out how to make online newspapers profitable - I hope.

~David Horsey

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I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

~David Icke

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I think that we're trying to look at all of our assets and figure out what's the best use and where we need to make investments in infrastructure to enable the projects that we want.

~David Ige

Topics: Assets Best Enable Figure Infrastructure Investments Look Make Need Our Out Projects Think Trying Use Want Where I Think

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Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it's easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public's interest as expressed by our courts.

~David Ignatius

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The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.

~David Kay

Topics: Analysis Call Fact Fault Figure Fundamental Got Me More Much Out Problem Tells Understanding Wrong

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I'm a strange kind of author - I like assignments. I wasn't clever enough to invent an iconic figure like Salander, but she's my kind of girl.

~David Lagercrantz

Topics: Assignments Author Clever Enough Figure Girl Iconic Invent Kind Like She Strange

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Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

~David Leavitt

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I made 'St. Nick' on a 30-page outline. 'Aint' Them Bodies Saints' was a full-bodied script, but it still had a lot of room for improvisation. There were scenes that weren't there on the page - just a sentence saying something happens. I was like, 'We'll figure this out when we shoot it.'

~David Lowery

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