Creativity, as Albert Hirshmann of Princeton once wrote, always comes as a surprise to us.
So is Pope Benedict XVI, with whom Mr Pera once wrote a book on the subject.
For example, I once wrote an entire business plan with a business partner on paper towels.
"An indescribable conglomeration of beauty and ugliness, " the late San Francisco columnist Herb Caen once wrote.
Mr Brown once wrote an admiring biography of an early local socialist MP.
Erma Bombeck once wrote that any man who watches three football games in a row should be declared legally dead.
Rumours, as somebody once wrote, are the oldest form of mass media.
He once wrote an essay criticizing Joseph Conrad, author of "Heart of Darkness, " as a racist for his depiction of Africans as savages.
Nonetheless, Mr Kondo, a former business journalist who once wrote a book on bureaucrats, has realised how valuable his own mandarins can be.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote that the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Ironically, in his former life, Peter was CFO at a large oil company and once wrote a serious presentation on fraud detection and prevention.
Montaigne once wrote that in treating his subjects, he sometimes merely licked them, sometimes scraped their surfaces, and sometimes pinched them to the bone.
Mr Milosz once wrote that exile is the worst fate that may befall a poet, since poetry cannot live without its roots in native speech.
"The canvas I began 10 years ago I shall perhaps complete today or tomorrow, " he once wrote, expressing his belief in art as an organic process.
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Once you've got a hot rod, you are supposed to show it off, in the noble tradition of the car buffs that Tom Wolfe once wrote about.
And some, he thought, were no more than sighs, like the one he once wrote on the sand of an Irish beach for the tide to take away.
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In an earlier persona, Johnson once wrote of a certain large-wigged Law Lord that he plainly thought the press too big for its boots and unfit to black his.
The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges once wrote a story about an empire so obsessed with maps that its cartographers constructed a map as large as the empire itself.
The statistician Stephen Stigler once wrote an elegant essay about the futility of the practice of eponymy in science that is, the practice of naming a scientific discovery after its inventor.
"Being a dandy is a condition, " he once wrote.
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I, myself, once wrote of a Notre Dame football star, Chris Zorich, who played in the Orange Bowl one night, flew home to Chicago the next morning and found his mother dead inside their home.
Papastavrou claimed he had been unable to redeem his investment after Bushido's two main chiefs resigned, leaving the fund managed by Yvonne Morabito, a financial theorist of sorts who once wrote Dollar Signs: An Astrological Guide to Personal Finance.
We talk about how much the Web matters in the developing world (I once wrote a cover story on telecom and MTV in Africa.) Maybe we need to think about what a difference I can make for the poor in our own country, too.
" That fuzzy line between authenticity and the reproduction can rankle purists, who see in the democratization of taste a profusion of tasteful items "devalued, " as Paul Goldberger once wrote, in a piece about Friedman when he was at Pottery Barn, "by their very accessibility.
Jordan, who always wanted the last word, never let Hubbard forget that he had, however momentarily, underestimated Michael Jordan, a journalistic misdemeanor perilously close to a felony, and there would be periodic references when he saw Hubbard to all that crap he once wrote years ago.
President Obama's new science adviser, John Holdren, is a fervent believer in the crank theories of Paul Ehrlich, a once popular scientist who wrote the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, along with treatisespredicting imminent mass global starvation and various other apocalypses.
President Obama's new science adviser, John Holdren, is a fervent believer in the crank theories of Paul Ehrlich, a once popular scientist who wrote the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb, along with treatises predicting imminent mass global starvation and various other apocalypses.
Once in a while he wrote brief letters to the editor using the name A. Sock, a wordplay on Punch.
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"I once went to court and I wrote a letter to the judge and I asked him to please send me to boot camp, " he explains.
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