48 Quotes About Topics

  • Author Charles Lamb
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    This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.

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  • Author Donella Meadows
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    I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

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  • Author Toni Morrison
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    It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

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  • Author Ramez Naam
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    Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

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  • Author Mallory Ortberg
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    I don't know of any way to control the subject of one's dreams although I'm fairly certain there are more than a few types of psychoanalysis dedicated to the topic.

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  • Author Ezra Pound
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    There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

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  • Author Laurence J. Peter
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    Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

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