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• There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Ill Will, Criticism

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1708, ShandonPress

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• Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.

  Martin Luther

  Latin, Simple, Doctors

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• The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.

  Flann O'Brien

  Iron, Numbers, People

  Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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• Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Religious, War, Population Problem

  "Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb". PBS video produced by David Suzuki,

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• You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Home, Balance, Cows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  Larry Kramer

  Gay, America, Stupidity

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• Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Land, People, Liberty

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• Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course)... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior of all solutions of the system was more important than the local behavior of particular, analytically-precise solutions.

  Robert L. Devaney

  History, Understanding, Important

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• It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good or bad news.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Differences, Years

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• Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

  John Lahr

  Awards, Talking, Play

  "Lahr’s Tony Picks: The 2012 Edition". www.newyorker.com.

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• The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

  John Fowles

  Optimistic, Simple, Republic

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Hunger, Compliment

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.329

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• It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

  William Ernest Henley

  Artist, Confusion, Raw Materials

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “The Works of William Ernest Henley: Views and reviews”

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• Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Education, Mind, United States

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge”

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• My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Class, America

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• While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

  Frances Bean Cobain

  Mother, Taken, Affair

  "Frances Bean Cobain Says Dave Grohl Never Creeped on Her" by Christopher R. Weingarten, www.spin.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

  Richard Jeni

  Eight, Years, Guy

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• Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.

  Gordon Taylor

  Team, Fighting, Mates

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• It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Play, Boards, Opponents

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• Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Spiritual, Communication, Loss

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• I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.

  Philip Massinger

  Believe, Play, Secret

  Philip Massinger (1779). “The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger...”, p.242

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• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

  Mae Whitman

  School, People, Hurtful

  "Mae Whitman Interview PARENTHOOD and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.

  Kate Walsh

  Thinking, Water Bottles, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Simple, Humanity

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• Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

  Sam Raimi

  Mean, Elements, Horror

  Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 21, 2007.

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