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“Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.”
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“Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.”
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“We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.”
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“The future is bright at Ohio State.”
Source : "Everything Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said after the Buckeyes' spring game". Interview with Ari Wasserman, www.cleveland.com. April 16, 2016. 
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“The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.”
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“An English man does not travel to see English men.”
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“Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.”
Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.91, Atlantic Books Ltd
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“It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. 'Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the Moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt.”
Source : "A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet". Book by John Wilkins, Book 1, Chapter 14, p. 238-239, 1640.
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“The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.”
Source : Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital 23: 191 (1912)
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“It will work. I am a marketing genius.”
