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Elegance is refusal.

— Coco Chanel

Submitted by addedentry almost 2 years ago

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1. minimalism
2. style
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Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself.

— Patrick McGoohan

Submitted by addedentry over 2 years ago

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Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

— Max Beerbohm

Submitted by addedentry over 2 years ago

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1. oxford
2. school
3. university
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Not having to go to a library is a very important improvement in providing library service.

— Fred Kilgour

Submitted by addedentry over 2 years ago

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1. computers
2. libraries
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Death in old age is inevitable but death before old age is not.

— Richard Doll

Submitted by addedentry over 2 years ago

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1. age
2. death
3. disease
4. health
5. life
6. medicine
7. old
8. smoking
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Think globally, act locally.

— Disputed

Submitted by addedentry over 2 years ago

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1. environment
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Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

— Jon Postel

Submitted by addedentry over 2 years ago

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1. internet
2. politics
3. rule
4. tolerance
5. golden
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It's worse than you think. I really do believe in it.

— Tony Blair

Submitted by addedentry over 2 years ago

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Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

— Philip Larkin

Submitted by addedentry almost 3 years ago

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1. history
2. irony
3. nothing
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I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as I needed it.

— John Cage

Submitted by addedentry almost 3 years ago

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First of all, I am a real minimalist, because I don't do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating. I really don't do very much.

— Robert Wyatt

Submitted by addedentry almost 3 years ago

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1. humour
2. irony
3. minimalism
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Some people are dreaming about what they have not got. I am trying to forget what I have already had.

— John Pawson

Submitted by addedentry almost 3 years ago

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You will find it a very good practice always to verify your quotations.

— Martin Routh

Submitted by addedentry almost 3 years ago

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1. research
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A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.

— Frank Westheimer

Submitted by addedentry almost 3 years ago

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A book is a machine to think with.

— I.A. Richards

Submitted by addedentry almost 3 years ago

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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

— Alfred Renyi

Submitted by addedentry almost 3 years ago

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1. mathematics
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A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

— Daniel Dennett

Submitted by addedentry almost 3 years ago

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1. libraries
2. recursion
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Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

— Dennis Leigh

Submitted by addedentry almost 3 years ago

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1. optimism
2. work
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