"The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it."
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"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."
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"John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate."
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"Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality."
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"The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves."
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"The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for."
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"We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this."
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"We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind."
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"Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler."
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"The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out."
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"My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had."
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"We don't train executives, we find them. If a mountain stands up like Everest, you don't have to be a genius to figure out that it's a high mountain."
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"I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess."
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"The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners."
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"I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time"
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"I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out."
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"Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible."
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"I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right."
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"Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone."
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"I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be."
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