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• How is it possible on the one hand, for example, to behave as if nothing on earth were more important than literature, and on the other fail to see that wherever one looks, people are struggling against hunger and will necessarily consider that the most important thing is what they earn at the end of the month? Because this is where he (the writer) is confronted with a new paradox: while all he wanted was to write for those who are hungry, he now discovers that it is only those who have plenty to eat who have the leisure to take notice of his existence.

  Stig Dagerman

  Struggle, Writing, Hands

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 2008.

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• I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane. The legislators who leave that policy in place are derelict in their duties to be rational and fair. There are plenty of them in both political parties. It's totally outrageous.

  Charlie Munger

  Party, Thinking, Ideas

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• There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results.

  David Brooks

  Team, Party, Player

  "A Most Valuable Democrat". www.nytimes.com. January 20, 2011.

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• Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Strong, New York, Circles

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• All right. If you insist. I do not sleep with girls. No, no, no, let me be absolutely accurate. I've gone through the motions of sleeping with girls exactly three times, all of them disastrous. The word for my sex life now is nil. Or as you Americans would say, "plenty of nuttin'.

  Jay Presson Allen

  Girl, Sex, Sleep

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• In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.

  Rudolph Fisher

  Rights, Law, Land

  Rudolph Fisher, John McCluskey (2008). “The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher”, p.36, University of Missouri Press

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• I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.

  Leif Garrett

  Crazy, Stupid, Charity

  "Leif Garrett to Justin Bieber: 'Don't believe your own publicity'". Interview with Diana Falzone, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2013.

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• I'm an actor. Never trust an actor, whatever their energy is. I suppose you guys see that side of me, but I'm sure there's plenty of people close to me who've seen the other one. I think if we're all honest with ourselves, we all know that internal rage.

  Hugh Jackman

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• When you audition for things, there's pressure to go in there with a complete performance, and it's kind of unfair because, if you get it, you'll have rehearsal and talk about it, and you'll have plenty of time with the script. So, for me, I really do feel like an audition is a sketch of what you might do.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Auditions, Rehearsal, Might

  "Elisabeth Moss Talks Jane Campion’s Miniseries TOP OF THE LAKE, Filming in New Zealand, Working with Holly Hunter, the Dark Nature of the Story, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 18, 2013.

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• The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one's lordship is to know what one's true Will is, and to do it.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mean, People, Doe

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• Shinji is a quality player but he is not the only one who is finding it hard to get regular football. There are many top players in the squad and there is plenty of competition.

  Andy Cole

  Football, Player, Squad

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• There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

  Allan Hamilton

  Emotional, Get Better, Energy

  "A Soulful Surgeon". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com.

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• There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading The Times editorial pages and the Daily Mail sports pages.

  Lionel Barber

  Sports, Coffee, Reading

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• English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. Her wildness is a greenwood, her wild man a Robin Hood. There is plenty of genial love of Nature, but not so much of Nature herself. Her chronicles inform us when her wild animals, but not the wild man in her, became extinct.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Men, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.167, e-artnow

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• It doesn't matter where on Earth you live, everyone is utterly dependent on the existence of that lovely, living saltwater soup. There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Water, Lovely

  Sylvia A. Earle (1995). “Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Sea, Rivers, Common Sense

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 8,

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• Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick, use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Wall, Forever, Use

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter V, Section 8,

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• I am powerful and I am loving.
  I have much to give to this world.
  I am a person of worth.
  I deserve love.
  I am a capable person.
  My life has meaning.
  My life is unfolding perfectly.
  There is plenty of time.

  Susan Jeffers

  Powerful, Deserve Love, Giving

  Susan Jeffers (1993). “Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace”, Ballantine Books

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• The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Want, Suits

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• There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

  Anton Chekhov

  Discipline, People, Precise

  Letter to V.A. Posse, February 15, 1900.

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• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen!
  Bare long after the rest are green;
  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives
  Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--
  Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.
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  But by and by, when the flowers grow few
  And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--
  Out she comes in her matron grace
  With the purple myriads of her race;
  Full of plenty from root to crown,
  Showering plenty her feet adown.
  While far over head hang gorgeously
  Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,
  For the best grows highest, always highest,
  Upon the mulberry-tree.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Queens, Flower, Feet

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• He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage.

  Publilius Syrus

  Cabbage, Peppers, Abundance

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• No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.

  Arthur Helps

  Morning, Hard Work, Passion

  Sir Arthur Helps (1848). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.55

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• That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Contentment, Want, Riches

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• There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  People, Neglect, Busybodies

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.7, e-artnow

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