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Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality
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"The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed."

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Gene Wilder Actor, comedian
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"[Gilda Radner] died in '89, and I got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. I've just passed the five-year mark and I'm now what you call - well, it's called complete remission, but I'm cured. I'm fine."

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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty."

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