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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues."

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Walker Evans Photographer
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"Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and you might as well use it. You're privileged to be at Yale, but you know you're under an obligation to repay what's been put into you."

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Walker Evans Photographer
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"You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style."

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Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright
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"Evil must be confronted in its womb, and, if it can't be done otherwise, then it has to be dealt with by the use of force."

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
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"It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist
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"I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now."

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