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"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."

Witold Pilecki, Polish Soldier

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"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."

J. Irwin Miller, American Businessman

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"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."

Glenn Tipton, English Musician

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"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."

James Laughlin, American Poet

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"I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word."

Al Sharpton, American Politician

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"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."

Atom Egoyan, Canadian Director

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"There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?"

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Italians have no sense of the dramatic."

Jose Carreras, Spanish Musician

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"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word."

Barbara Amiel, British Journalist

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"In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'"

Thomas J. Sargent, American Economist

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"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."

Being

"The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote."

Criticism

"To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all."

Decision-Making

"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful."

Effort

"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game."

Love

"A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat."

Thought

"The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy."

Decision-Making

"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."

Reflection

"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for."

Woman

"I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing."

Fun