"There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science."
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"Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table."
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"The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery."
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"I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive."
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"The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears."
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"If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful."
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"No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination."
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"Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on."
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"Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental."
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"Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school."
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"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
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"A table-full of welcome!"
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"I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I'd trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead."
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"I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again."
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"Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?"
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"In my life there are not that many questions I can't properly deal with using my $40 adding machine and dog-eared compound interest table."
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"I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old."
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"The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure."
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"One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards."
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"There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them."
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