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Letter "C" » collectors
«Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart- pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. And then came cigarette cards, big-league baseball players. I was an insatiable fiend, and would cheerfully trade you three Indian Joes for one of that upstart newcomer, Ty Cobb.»
Author: Edward G. Robinson
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Actor)
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Keywords:
baseball card,
Baseball players,
big league,
black lung,
cheerfully,
cigarette,
Cobb,
collector,
collectors,
Edward,
Edward G. Robinson,
Edward G,
Indian,
One Pound,
Only Yesterday,
pounding,
Robinson,
Ty Cobb,
uncles,
upstart
«Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.»
«Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, we [cell biologists] are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex.»
«Paperbacks blink in and out of print like fireflies. They also, as older collectors have ruefully discovered, fade and fall apart even more rapidly than their owners.»
Author: Paul Gray
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Keywords:
blink,
blinked,
blinking,
blinks,
collectors,
fall apart,
fireflies,
firefly,
out of print,
owners,
paperback,
Paperbacks,
rapidly,
ruefully
«Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.»
«I embrace emerging experience.I participate in discovery.I am a butterfly.I am not a butterfly collector.I want the experience of the butterfly.»
«Remember when $25, 000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector.»
«There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(
Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Beyond Reason,
collectors,
compare,
generalize,
generalized,
generalizes,
generalizing,
intellects,
labors,
skylight,
skylights
«I chant and meditate on the Lord, loading the merchandise of the Lord's Name. The Messenger of Death, the tax collector, does not even approach me.»
«A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds -- or tries to add -- the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.»
Author: William Osler
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Physician)
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Keywords:
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collector,
collectors,
fancies,
foible,
foibles,
friendships,
phases,
preferences,
represented,
represents,
student,
the books