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Person, Film story contributor, Author, Playwright, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Asset Owner, Architectural structure owner, Film subject, TV Character, Film character, Comic Book Character, Book Character, Comic Book Writer, Person Or Being In Fiction, Fictional Character Creator, Musical ArtistWilliam Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or...
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QuotationO, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!-Miranda Act V, scene i
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...the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French. • P. G. Wodehouse • The Luck of the BodkinsQuotationInto the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. • Rita Mae Brown • Sudden DeathPerson, Film writer, AuthorRita Mae Brown (born November 28 1944) is a prolific American writer. She is best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle — published in 1973, it dealt with lesbian themes in an explicit manner unusual for the time. Brown is also a successful mystery writer and an...
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An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong... • Dietrich Dörner • The Logic of FailureQuotationAn individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong, and one would do well to keep that probability in mind. But this is easier said than done. People are most inclined to insist that they are...
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Person, Pro Athlete, Baseball PlayerLawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He was one of only four...
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Person, Pro Athlete, Baseball PlayerLawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He was one of only four...
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Person, Pro Athlete, Baseball PlayerLawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He was one of only four...
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Person, Pro Athlete, Baseball PlayerLawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He was one of only four...
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Person, Pro Athlete, Baseball PlayerLawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He was one of only four...
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Person, Pro Athlete, Baseball PlayerLawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He was one of only four...
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Person, Pro Athlete, Baseball PlayerLawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He was one of only four...
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Person, Pro Athlete, Baseball PlayerLawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He was one of only four...
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Person, Pro Athlete, Baseball PlayerLawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. He played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1972. He was one of only four...
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QuotationOne of Miller (Tracey Walter)'s philosophical outbursts in the repo junk yard.
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Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Film actor, Film story contributor, Adoptive Parent, Influence Node, Fictional Character Creator, Organization member, Book SubjectKurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11 1922 – April 11 2007) was a prolific and genre-bending American novel known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). Kurt...
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New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. • Kurt Vonnegut • Breakfast of ChampionsPerson, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Film actor, Film story contributor, Adoptive Parent, Influence Node, Fictional Character Creator, Organization member, Book SubjectKurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11 1922 – April 11 2007) was a prolific and genre-bending American novel known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). Kurt...
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. • Carl Sagan • ContactPerson, Film writer, Astronomer, Physicist, Author, Book Subject, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Award WinnerCarl Edward Sagan (November 9 1934 – December 20 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural science. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial...
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Person, Architect, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Award Winner, AuthorRichard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, poet and visionary. He was the second president of Mensa. He lends his name to a complex Carbon structure called Buckminsterfullerene also...
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. • Buckminster FullerPerson, Architect, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Award Winner, AuthorRichard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, poet and visionary. He was the second president of Mensa. He lends his name to a complex Carbon structure called Buckminsterfullerene also...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Film subject, Quotation, Influence Node, Film character, Film story contributorOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Film subject, Quotation, Influence Node, Film character, Film story contributorOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest...
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Quotation"I'll be back" is best known as a catch phrase associated with Arnold Schwarzenegger's title character from the 1984 science fiction thriller film The Terminator. In the original shooting script, the line was written as "I'll come back". The American Film Institute...
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe... • Immanuel Kant • Critique of Practical ReasonQuotationTwo things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. (transl.: Thomas Kingsmill Abbott) Zwei Dinge erfüllen das Gemüt mit immer neuer und...
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Person, Influence NodeJames Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries...
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Film, Work of Fiction, Quotation Source, Quotation Subject, Award-Winning Work, Award-Nominated Work2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its...
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Person, Author, Physicist, Deceased Person, Film writer, Influence Node, Person Or Being In Fiction, Book Subject, Award WinnerRichard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and particle theory. For his work on quantum electrodynamics,...
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. • Woody Allen • Without FeathersFilm director, Film actor, Film writer, Musical Artist, Person, Author, Award Winner, Award Nominee, Influence Node, CelebrityWoody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian and playwright.His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him...
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However many ways there are of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive. • Richard Dawkins • The Blind WatchmakerPerson, Film actor, Author, Influence Node, Organization founder, Musical ArtistClinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. He holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford. Born in Nairobi, Kenya,...
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Person, Deceased Person, Physicist, Award WinnerPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum...
