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Graham Nelson Game Designer
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"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."

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Graham Russell Musician
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"I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like "Too Sentimental" is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there."

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting."

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Leonardo DiCaprio Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist
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"I have no problem playing anyone who has different politics than me. In fact, I don't take that into consideration at all. You have to find something sympathetic in a man. It's that common ground you need to connect with someone."

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James L. Buckley Politician
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"They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!"

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Fred Upton Politician
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"Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned."

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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
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"The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive."

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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician
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"Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed."

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Fuyumi Ono Author
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"I think that once you're born, the thing you have to do is find out who you are and live that life as well as you can. You can't spend your time wondering how things would have been if you were someone different."

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Herman Cain Businessman, Politician
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"Okay, Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct?... No, that's a different one. I've got to go back, got all this stuff twirling around in my head."

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
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"We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept, the knowledge, the experience, is entirely different from the actual tree. Look at a tree and you will find how extraordinarily difficult it is to see it completely, so that no image, no screen, comes between the seeing and the actual fact. By completely I mean with the totality of your mind and heart, not a fragment of it."

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
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"My discord must be different from yours; my revolt must not be the same thing as yours. It will not be a revolt if it is moulding itself around your revolt."

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John Dyer Poet
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"I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life."

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