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Aristotle Onassis Shipping magnate
Thinking

"I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other."

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"I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art."

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Tommy Lee Musician, Drummer
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"You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up."

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Seth Musician
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"If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer."

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Stephen King Author
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"and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure."

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Russell Kirk Political Theorist, Author
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"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."

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Hannah Unknown
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"No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably in the last half hour!"

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Lauryn Hill Singer, Songwriter
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"As long as I remember that the glory is His and not my own. When I confuse that, I get in trouble. We think that we glorify ourselves, and the object is to glorify God first, and in doing that you become glorified, you get glorified."

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Ivan Pavlov Physiologist
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"If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then we should see playing over the cerebral surface, a bright spot with fantastic, waving borders constantly fluctuating in size and form, surrounded by a darkness more or less deep, covering the rest of the hemisphere."

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Herbert Simon Economist
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"Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn."

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