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The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.
Norbert Wiener / Mathematician
War
Barrels
Depreciation
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Information
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Plausible
Weapons
War World Value
Claim
War May World
Existing
False
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Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet, in a curious way, there is not much difference between the product of a good writer and a bad one. They both have to toe the same mark.
Ben Hecht / Screenwriter
Curious
Fifty
Mark
Men And Women
Talent
Thousand
Wit
Good Men Women
Writer
Bad One
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Good Writer
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In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.
David Ricardo / Economist
Commodity
Consideration
Intensity
Labour
Periods
Attended
Comparative
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Therefore
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To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.
John Quincy Adams / 6Th U.s. President
Bible
Efficacy
Employment
Habit
Occupation
Reflecting
Susceptible
Useful
Itself
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Equally
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The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience.
Edward Mckendree Bounds / Author
Brighter
Casual
Christ
Christianity
Creator
Deeper
Exalted
New Testament
Position
Reader
Resurrection
Stronger
Testament
Commanding
Fail
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Hopes
Richer
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
Edmund White / Novelist
Life Truth Great
Detail
Examined
Handed
Impelled
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'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.
Richard Flanagan / Novelist
Australia
Enigma
Germany
Inappropriate
Mysterious
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Northwest
Remote
Scarcely
Scattered
Thousands
Title
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Obviously if you're Coppola going into 'Apocalypse Now' off the back of the two 'Godfathers,' you're in a much better position than coming off the back of something like 'Dust Devil,' which had scarcely been released, and was pretty much lying around in film cans in different places.
Richard Stanley /
Apocalypse
Dust
Lying
Cans
Coppola
Different Places
Released
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Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
Venerable Bede / Saint
Breadth
Britain
Burden
Hay
Honey
Ireland
Milk
Provision
Serenity
Snow
Summer
Winter
Abound
Beasts
Builds
Lies
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The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
Tom Robbins / Author
Kids
Brutal
Children
Commerce
Guilt
Religious
School
Training
Truth Is
Wheels
Brains
Educating
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Religious Right
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While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.
Niels Bohr / Physicist
Knowledge
Consciousness
Quantum
Relativity
Theory
Picture
Absorb
Aspects
General
Extent
Finish
Occurred
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I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.
John Marshall / Former Chief Justice Of The United States
Fortune
Possessed
September
Virginia
Counties
Frontier
Gifts
Improved
Limited
Received
Scarcely
Whom
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The last time I saw Dad alive, he was in the hospital. He was watching 'Hell Drivers,' a crummy B-movie about truckers, on TV and reading the 'Daily Record.' This seems scarcely believable, but I actually said, 'Dad, you've not got long to go - don't you think you should be imbibing the culture a bit more?'
John Niven /
Alive
Believable
Drivers
Hell
Last Time
Reading
Crummy
Daily
Hospital
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Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst.
John James Audubon / Ornithologist
Dry
Form
Grandeur
Needs
Persons
Quench
Reader
Terrific
Thirst
Waste
Content
Hurricane
Laying
Scarcely
Sweep
Witnessed
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
E. F. Benson /
Affection
Forgotten
Golden
Mature
Youth
Life Love Romantic
Memory
Missed
Prizes
Retain
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You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.
Abraham Lincoln / 16Th U.s. President
Credit
Honest
Thoughtful
Life Time Work
Dollar
Earned
Life Work Time
Incident
Little Thing
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Trifle
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I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee, and they were saying, 'Gosh it's terrible about Stephen, isn't it?' They told me that he had been in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London having horrible tests and then had been diagnosed with an atypical form of a rare disease - motor neurone disease.
Jane Hawking /
Coffee
Horrible
Motor
Old Friends
Saturday
Tests
Diagnosed
Rare
Gosh
Hospital
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