George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other."
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Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future"
Helmut Newton
Photographer
"It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction."
Charles C. Mann
Author
"A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road."
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"If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator."
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"Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted."
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"Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory."
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"I dove on those papers like Sherlock Holmes on a cappuccino binge."
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"Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper."
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"People don't buy plastic and paper, they buy emotions."
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"Imperialism is a paper tiger."
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"Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice."
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"Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves."
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero."
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"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper."
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"The best place to solve a problem is on paper."
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"If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash."
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"Problems are like toilet paper. You pull on one and ten more come."
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"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
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"Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself."
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"The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases."
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"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
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"One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?"
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"The world is full of paper, write to me"
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