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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

~A. J. Liebling

Topics: Cherished Concept Generally More Poor Publishers Than

Keywords: About African Always Anymore Been Care Continent Find How Humanity Interested More Narratives Our Ourselves Really Stories Tell West Writer Writers


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My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.

~Aaron Koblin

Topics: Activity Aggregate Generally Happens Humanity Influenced Interested Just Level Me Mom Personal Personal Level Plus Psychologist Social Technology Think Visualization I Think

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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: About Behind Culture Generally Government Group How Idiots Juice Leaders Our People Popular Popular Culture Portrayed Thought Well West West Wing Wing Writing Wrote

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Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That's what we do at halftime.

~Abby Wambach

Topics: Burn Generally Going Halftime How Players Replace Soccer Stores Those Through You

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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Biographies Cheat Commemorate False Generally Lie Misleading Most Only Out Posterity Truth Written

Keywords: Abandon


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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

~Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Act Appropriate Capitalists Concert Generally Got Money Now People Quarrel Settle Themselves

Keywords: Abandoned


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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

~Adam D'Angelo

Topics: Books Generally Information Just Knowledge Like Myself Reading Reading Books Really

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The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments.

~Adam Davidson

Topics: About Animal Companies Confidence Economics Emotions Feeling Future Generally Good Hire Idea Important Incredibly Investments John Likely Make Money More New People Population Spend Spirit Start

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As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time.

~Adam Schlesinger

Topics: Beat Distinctive Even Exciting Expected Find First First Time Generally Good Great Hearing Listener Lyric Melody More Neatly Riff Satisfying Singing Suddenly Than Ties Time Together Very Voice Writer You

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I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.

~Adam Schlesinger

Topics: Arrangement Arrangements Band Come Even Experiment Fully Generally Head Much Other Out Prefer Pretty Sometimes Song Studio Then Times Work Worked Written

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