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Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality
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"I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived."

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Thornton Wilder Playwright, Novelist, Poet
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"He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living."

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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain."

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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
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"Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge."

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Stephen King Author
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"I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me."

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