"I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are."
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"Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire"
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"I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live."
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"The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it."
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"Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with."
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"An individual piece only has meaning when it is seen as part of the whole."
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"Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed."
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"I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture."
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"Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture."
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"You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors."
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"People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works."
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"In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man."
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"Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day."
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"To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces."
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"Somebody's buying these treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent. Consuming about $2 billion a day of goods and services beyond what we're producing. In other words, the rest of the world sends about $2 billion a day net of something.We got to send them something in return, don't we. So we send them little pieces of paper."
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"About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times."
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"I love you to pieces, distraction, etc."
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"Chanel all the way! Just because not only do they have timeless pieces, but since it is the epitome of class and elegance."
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"We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change."
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"Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation."
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