"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."

Content, Months, Provocative

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"It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content."

Steve Crocker, American Businessman

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"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."

Edward Sapir, American Scientist

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"Today you can't go by the titles of the shows to know what the content of the show may be."

Donna Douglas, American Actress

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"There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity."

John Doerr, American Businessman

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"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."

Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist

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"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment."

Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian

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"I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc."

Howard Gardner, American Psychologist

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"Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?"

Charles L. Allen, American Clergyman

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"We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does."

Tim O'Reilly, American Publisher

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"I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years."

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"As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us."

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"When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values."

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"I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education."

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"You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart."

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"Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm."

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"MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it."

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"My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale."

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"They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought."

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