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• But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced to both parties concerned, effects of the same complexion with the usual fruits of national errour. The present age is cajoled to tax and enslave itself, by the errour of believing that it taxes and enslaves future ages to enrich itself.

  John Taylor of Caroline

  Party, Believe, Age

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• Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Law, Self, Lines

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• The record, as usual, is not good. But on the other hand it is wonderful.

  Caetano Veloso

  Hands, Records, Wonderful

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• The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

  Salvador Dali

  Ideas, Able, Painter

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• It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Morning, Laughing, Looks

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Government, Next, Nightmare

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• When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

  Paul Krugman

  Vices, Virtue, Economics

  "Depression Economics Returns" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. November 14, 2008.

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• The trouble is that the whole 'accept Christ' attitude is likely to be wrong. It shows Christ applying to us rather than us to him. It makes him stand hat-in-hand awaiting our verdict on him, instead of our kneeling with troubled hearts awaiting his verdict on us. It may even permit us to accept Christ by an impulse of mind or emotions, painlessly, at no loss to our ego and no inconvenience to our usual way of life.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Attitude, Heart, Loss

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• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Choices, Decision, Economic

  "Years of the Modern". Book by J.W. Chase, 1949.

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• I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Society, Vulgar

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, Storytelling, Situation

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

  Jean Kerr

  Depressing, Mistake, Law

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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• The usual reproach against the essay, that it is fragmentary and random, itself assumes the givenness of totality and suggests that man is in control of this totality. The desire of the essay, though, is not to filter the eternal out of the transitory; it wants, rather, to make the transitory eternal.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Desire, Filters

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• There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

  Henry James

  Unions, Bases, Mutual

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.2475, e-artnow

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• I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.

  Robin McKinley

  Stars, Love You, Lovers

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.157, Open Road Media

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• By a 2-1 margin, voters believe that Donald Trump would change business as usual in Washington, but by almost as large a margin, they believe that Hillary Clinton would be better in a crisis and less of a decisive margin she cares about people like them.

  Mark Shields

  Believe, People, Would Be

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Morning, Drinking, Self

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• There is this inherent human instinct that the usual way you control trolling is you force people to use their real identities. So there's less trolling on Facebook, for example.

  Tim Wu

  Real, People, Identity

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.

  Dale Jamieson

  Ignorance, Government, Greed

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

  Jackson Pollock

  Artist, Tools, Etc

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will remain somewhere in the arctic. What's more likely is that we'll continue remaking the planet, driving many species to extinction, killing millions of people through the indirect effects of climate change, making life even harder for the poor and powerless than it is now, and making it a little more difficult for the global middle class to live the lives to which they have become accustomed - in other words, business as usual, only worse.

  Dale Jamieson

  Class, People, Screw Ups

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I don't know if I ever mentioned back in 2002 we fought our way into a governor's debate in Massachusetts where, you know, this was televised and I articulated our usual agenda: cut the military, put the dollars into true security here at home, provide healthcare as a human right, raise wages which needed to be living wages, green our energy system, equal marriage? - we were the only ones talking about it back in 2002.

  Jill Stein

  Military, Home, Cutting

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Because the oils work in a different way from antibiotics, they do not have the usual side effects, and they tend to stimulate the immune system instead of depressing it.

  Robert Tisserand

  Depressing, Oil, Different

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• Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

  John Boehner

  People, Broken, Listening

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• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  Jacki Weaver

  Brother, Crazy, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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