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• What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God’s word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

  Simon Hoggart

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• Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

  Mark Helprin

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• Even the most beautiful legs – Marlene Dietrich’s, for instance – look better when the kneecap is covered.

  Edith Head

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• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences – the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they’re going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

  Sam Harris

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• Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can’t read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.

  Deborah Harkness

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• I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.

  Vikas Swarup

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• Success on the front of women’s rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances – where no girl is denied access to education, for instance – but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

  Adora Svitak

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• What’s even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they’re doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, ‘Watch out. Don’t plant too much and don’t depend on it too much.’

  David R. Brower

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• The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.

  Peter Raymond Grant

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• For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now – that doesn’t quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I’m not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.

  Connie Chung

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• When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

  Chinua Achebe

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• I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 – 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.

  Tony Visconti

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• All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of ’38, ’39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

  Giovanni Agnelli

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• It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I’ve done up to 32 takes with him.

  Robert Carlyle

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• I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.

  Neville Marriner

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• I suppose what’s happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things that I point out. For instance I have a section of the book where I talk about the possibility of torture.

  Peter Albert David Singer

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