Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics."
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Edward Said
Literary Theorist, Critic, and Author
"History is written by those who win and those who dominate."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"I hate writing, I love having written."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"History is written by the winners."
James Brown
Singer, Musician
"My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them."
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"My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees."
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"History is written by those who hang heroes."
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"If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be."
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"Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!"
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"Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written."
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"As for love . . . no, having once written that word I can write nothing more."
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"The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before."
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"History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated."
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"A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about."
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"There is no story unless you've written it."
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"History is a story written by the finger of God."
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"If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us."
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"With my website, I'm really interactive. I've written a lot of things about me."
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"I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something."
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"Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick."
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"I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true."
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"No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead."
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"If I had more time, I would have written less."
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"The future has to be lived before it can be written about."
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"It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written."
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