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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive."

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Kenneth E. Iverson Computer Scientist
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"The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
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"I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing."

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