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• En cuanto a sus doctrinas, estoy dispuesto a ir a la Estaca si es necesario... Confío en que no se sentirá en modo alguno disgustado o molesto por los considerables abusos y tergiversaciones que, a menos que me equivoque, le esperan... Y en cuanto a los malditos que ladrarán y aullarán -debe recordar que algunos de sus amigos, al menos, están dotados de una combatividad que (aunque usted la ha reprendido a menudo y con justicia) puede serle útil-, estoy afilando mis garras y mi pico.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mistake, Science, Annoyed

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• Try it on." "It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled. "It has a slit up the thigh." His smile depened. "Zip it up?" Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. "I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up: If you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, i will track Scott down, and when i find him, it won't be pretty.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Home, Eye, Hard Times

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• It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult, instead of sharpening concentration we tend to set it aside and instead turn on the television, which not only requires minimal attention, but in fact tends to diffuse what little it commands with choppy editing, commercial interruptions, and generally inane content.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Book, Reading, Editing

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• I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.

  David Rees

  Difficult Times, Quitting, Census

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading comments about how people hate my pencil-sharpening business.

  David Rees

  Hate, War, Reading

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Me tomo la cultura pop muy en serio, creo que es muy importante, y el material que hago... no quiero que sea insustancial, aunque trate de algo absurdo, como afilar lápices. Creo que me lo debo a mí mismo y se lo debo a la gente que está realmente interesada en los lápices, y se lo debo a cualquiera, para hacer mi debida diligencia y darles algo real.

  David Rees

  Real, Pensar, Dar

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.

  David Rees

  Dream, Dollars, Making Money

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Dark, Brain, Lasers

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). "Voces en el laberinto: naturaleza, hombre y ciencia", Harper San Francisco

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• I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest. I'd half-awaken. He'd stick his skull under my nose and purr, stinking of urine and blood. Some nights he kneaded my bare chest with his front paws, powerfully, arching his back, as if sharpening his claws, or pummeling a mother for milk. And some mornings I'd wake in daylight to find my body covered with paw prints in blood; I looked as though I'd been painted with roses.

  Annie Dillard

  Mother, Morning, Cat

  Annie Dillard (2009). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Ningún refinamiento del gusto en materia de arte o literatura, ninguna agudización de la capacidad de discernimiento en materia de ciencia o psicología, podrá jamás sustituir la sensibilidad a la vida de la tierra. Este es el principio y el fin de la verdadera educación de una persona.

  John Cowper Powys

  Art, Psychology, Literature

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 175, 1936.

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• The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

  Lucy Powell

  Government, Choices, Mind

  "Una buena noche para los laboristas", por Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. 7 de noviembre de 2008.

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• Les digo a los estudiantes que, aunque no les gusten las matemáticas en este momento, pueden utilizarlas como una herramienta para afilar el cerebro, una herramienta que no sólo sienta las bases para una gran carrera, sino que también refuerza la confianza en sí mismos, independientemente de lo que decidan hacer con sus vidas.

  Danica McKellar

  Self Confidence, Math, Careers

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• Como creador de personajes, su peculiaridad es que crea allí donde sus ojos se posan... Con semejante poder a sus órdenes, Dickens hizo que sus libros ardieran, no apretando la trama o agudizando el ingenio, sino arrojando otro puñado de personas al fuego.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Character, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

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• ‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

  León Trotsky

  Partido, Lucha, Clase

  Leon Trotsky (1970). “Germany, 1931-1932”

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• Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

  Antón Chéjov

  Law, Interesting, Mind

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, January 4, 1889.

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• The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course - appears to be an excellent means of sharpening the mind and developing mental skills that are of general benefit.

  Keith Devlin

  Mean, Skills, Mind

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• When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Exercise, Typewriters

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

  David Rees

  Wonder, Sharpening Pencils, Paid

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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