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  1. I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. |
     
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  2. To do is to be. |
     
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  3. It takes a long time to become young. |
     
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  4. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. |
     
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    Love

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  5. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. |
     
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  6. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. |
     
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  7. How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? |
     
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  8. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying ! |
     
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  9. If only God would give me some clear sign! Like... making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. |
     
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  10. Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one... |
     
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  11. Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere |
     
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  12. I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because, if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever. |
     
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  13. Information is power. |
     
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    Technology

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  14. Simplicity of device is always the sign of the master, whether in science or in art. |
     
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  15. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. |
     
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  16. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. |
     
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  17. A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. |
     
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  18. Less is more. |
     
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  19. Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. |
     
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  20. The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. |
     
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  21. I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks. |
     
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  22. Rather, the point is to recognize the tightness between seeing and thinking on an intellectual level not just a metaphorical level. |
     
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  23. The key argument is that cognitive tasks should be turned into design principles. |
     
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  24. Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different. |
     
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