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Marcel Proust Novelist
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"A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions."

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Joss Stone Singer-songwriter
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"I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make."

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John Green Author, YouTuber
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"When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, god forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated 19 girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases."

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