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Stan Lee Comic Book Writer, Editor
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"I'd like to own Intel... I'd like to own Microsoft... I'd love to have Warner Bros in my hip pocket."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year."

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Paul Simon Musician, Songwriter
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"It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?"

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"How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!"

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Dave Chappelle Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me."

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Devra Davis Environmental Scientist
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"It's true that non-ionizing radiation lacks the power to have damage. But its damage seems to come from its modulated signal. So every 900 milliseconds, if you have a cellphone in your pocket, it's getting half of that radiation which is getting into you as it seeks the signal from the tower."

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"Deftly whipping a small tuning fork from his pocket, he struck it smartly against a pillar and held it next to Jamie's left ear. Jamie rolled his eyes heavenward, but shrugged and obligingly sang a note. The little man jerked back as though he'd been shot."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil."

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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
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"No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"So please take a seat if you really can't stand it, got success in my pocket and these rappers in a panic"

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"Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face."

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