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    Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

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    The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

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    Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

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    The key to my collections is sensuality.

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    The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.

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    The most important publication of WikiLeaks is that it has published more than 10 million documents. The most important single collection of material we have published is the US diplomatic cable series. We started with 251,000 in 2011, but are up to 3 million now and have more coming.

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    Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

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    The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

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    The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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    The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

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    The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

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    The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

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    The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.

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    They are works of art that can be considered works of art but don't have to be in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.

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    This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones.

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    When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.

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    Which is why you chose to wear that delightful ensemble from the skank-wear collection at Hoes-n-Thangs?" -Tommy

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    [Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)

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    Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

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    Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.

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    You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

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    A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. Not only because it can always be added to, but because it is already too much. The collector’s need is precisely for excess, for surfeit, for profusion. It’s too much—and it’s just enough for me. … A collection is always more than is necessary.

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    Beth had been a middle school science teacher and Joni was a librarian and they both had collections of weird stuff they had found. Bizarre, misspelled letters written by lovelorn eighth graders. Obscene Polaroids left in between the pages of library books. They used to call each other on the phone to share their latest discovery, and Critter had always remained a little off to the side, never feeling quite as sharp or ironic as they were. Critter was an electrician, primarily home repair, and so he didn't usually come across anything except bad wiring and faulty lighting fixtures.

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    With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

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    You're only as good as your record collection.

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    You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

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    Are you willing to accept anything less than the credit you want, the credit you need and the credit you deserve?

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    For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

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    If repairing one's credit is as easy as sending some dispute letters to the credit bureaus then why doesn't everyone have good credit?

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    If you don't take good care of your credit, then your credit won't take good care of you.

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    I really admire people who don’t need to live surrounded by lots of stuff. My bedroom is piled up with clothes and books, papers and photographs. I like to collect things, anything I can grab from wherever I’m travelling. I think it’s the sign of slight anxiety to always want something around you to represent a good moment you had, to hang on to the leftovers. But then they’re a pleasure to look at too, so it’s not all negative.

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    Isn't it sad that we have to gain control of the artificial numbers placed upon us by others to regain some control of our lives?

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    Ephraim found a stack of postcards tied together with a faded green ribbon. He shuffled through them and found they were from every World's Fair from 1915 in San Francisco to 1939 in New York. None of the postcards hed been written on or mailed.

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    I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012)

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    A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

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    Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox collection.) But a people collection? That had to be the most bizarre one he'd come across. Not to mention the most unethical.

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    The whole world's a ghost factory. We all fade like the paint on these buildings, sometimes from too much sun, sometimes from too little. We blur and blend to the murky shades left behind when something vivid dies.

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    A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

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    A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

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    A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.

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    All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.

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    A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.

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    Always have a collection of your favorite CDs with you.

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    A Miscellany is a collection without a natual ordering relation.

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    A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

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    A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.

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    Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

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    Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

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    Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

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    Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.