"Very great care should then be taken to see that distant objects are rendered so as to appear distant that is, in correct relative tone when compared with the foreground or nearer portions."

— Alfred Horsley Hinton

Literature1863–1908

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"Fran Lebowitz. Una vita a New York"

— Marco Mete

Entertainment1955

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"An analogous process I shall call Churchillian Drift...Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are, as if by osmosis…"

— Nigel Rees

Literature1944

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"Ah, well, if they wanted their adultery, what did it matter to me? I hadn’t much room to talk, anyway, with my five-pound prostitutes who did a bunk and the Japanese girls who cost far less and didn’t…"

— Anthony Burgess

Music1917–1993

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"The President had a very cordial conversation with Prime Minister Trumble..."

— Sean Spicer

Politics1971

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"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

— Charlie Chaplin

Entertainment1889–1977

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"It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist."

— Louis de Broglie

Philosophy1892–1987

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"Dance well with a woman, and she’s halfway yours."

— Robert Jordan

Literature1948–2007

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"But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others,…"

— Karl Marx

Philosophy1867–1894

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"Collection of more than 20 Interviews with Steve Wozniak"

— Steve Wozniak

Technology1950

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"In 1937, Rommel was given the duties of liaison officer with the Hitler Jugend, under the charming but arrogant Baldur von Schirach. The two men did not like each other. Schirach, who was American-edu…"

— Baldur von Schirach

Politics1907–1974

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