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Nina Garcia Fashion Journalist, Author
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"Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very probably true. At that point, what was at stake was what is called credibility. So if you read the political actors, political leadership, foreign policy commentary, they constantly point out accurately that US credibility was at stake, and we have to maintain US credibility. So therefore something had to be done to show you can't violate our orders."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"What is important to us is to reverse the shameful course being pursued by America. It won't be easy, but it must and can be done."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"There are huge areas where the human mind is apparently incapable of forming sciences, or at least has not done so. There are other areas - so far, in fact, one area only [physics] - in which we have demonstrated the capacity for true scientific progress."

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
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"Even without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts I refuse the universal alibi"

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Leonardo DiCaprio Actor, Producer, Environmental Activist
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"We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed."

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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
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"And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!"

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements."

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