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• I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Nice, Thinking, Would Be

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• I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

  Shelley Berman

  Teaching, Years, California

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• It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

  Edward Sapir

  Heart, Crowds, Language

  Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.281, Walter de Gruyter

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• It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

  George Cukor

  People, Boss, Answers

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• By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Beauty, Oil

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.168, Ballantine Books

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• In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Beauty, Girl

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.551, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course, she always had something to brag about.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Problem, Bragging, Trouble

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.71, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Heart, Rome

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission" by Winston Churchill, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

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• What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent-fabulously more coherent-when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world. . . . . . . but showing that, of course, was a very big job. . . .

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Jobs, Reality, Quality

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Cat, Simple

  "Mark Twain’s Book of Animals".

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• Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Growing Up, Father

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• In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

  Don DeLillo

  Editing, Self, Voice

  1982 Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.5.

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• It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.

  Katie Holmes

  Party, Shoes, Hollywood

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• Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.

  John Hench

  Ideas, People, Dining

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• Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge

  Gordon Brown

  Character, Years, Challenges

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• According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Age, Majority

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• What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

  Douglass North

  War, Book, Reading

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• Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

  David Gill

  Years, Looks, Next Year

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• I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

  Atom Egoyan

  Environmental, Shooting, Way

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used. But what man should seek in regard to nature is not a complete domination but a modus vivendi - that is, a manner of living together, a coming to terms with something that was here before our time and will be here after it. The important corollary of this doctrine, it seems to me, is that man is not the lord of creation, with an omnipotent will, but a part of creation, with limitations, who ought to observe a decent humility in the face of the inscrutable.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Humility, Men, Important

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• Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level.

  Ronald Reagan

  Character, Air, Water

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.55, Humanix Books

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• Of course I have the odd bad game like other players. But I can't accept that. Especially when things don't go right for United. It all means so much to me to be succesful here. It drives me crazy at times.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Crazy, Mean

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• There is no option but to transform our world to a zero carbon future. We will fight to ensure that no one is left behind. This report breaks new ground and gives workers and businesses the confidence that there can be an economic plan which creates jobs and sets our planet on the course for survival.

  Sharan Burrow

  Jobs, Zero, Fighting

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• Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Taken, Sleep, Knights

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• Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.

  John Huston

  Art, Talking, Done

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