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• Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Selfish, People, Hypocrisy

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1999). “I, Juan De Pareja”, Turtleback Books

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• True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.

  Mariah Carey

  Smart, Water, Now And Then

  "Mariah Carey Dishes On 40 Things You Need To Know About Her". Interview with Brian Galindo, www.buzzfeed.com. June 3, 2015.

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• If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Mouths, Word Of Mouth

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

  Patricia Moyes

  Interesting, Retrospect, Causes

  Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

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• When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Animal, May

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.222, Penguin

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• Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Angel, World, France

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• He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Entertainment, Remember

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.264

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• Darwin remarks that we are less dazzled by the light at waking, if we have been dreaming of visible objects. Happy are those who have here dreamt of a higher vision! They will the sooner be able to endure the glories of the world to come.

  Novalis

  Dream, Light, Vision

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• Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Night, People

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• We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Darkness, Together, Lightning

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

  Washington Irving

  Endurance, Fortitude, Fortune

  Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.33, Penguin

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• God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

  Heinrich Heine

  Forgiveness, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

  Judith Martin

  People, Would Be, Racist

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• people, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.

  Judith Martin

  People, Lazy, Want

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fun, Writing, Who Cares

  sylvia plath (1971). “the bell jar”

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• It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Borders, Easy

  Doris May Lessing (1991). “Martha Quest”, Plume

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• Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.

  Barbara Holland

  Children, Sibling, Kids

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• Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Past, Roots, Conversation

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.53, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• [Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Wish, Looks, Pickles

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• I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.

  Bill Vaughan

  Caring, Guy, Care

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• It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Fire, Mind, Ignite

  Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.170, Faber & Faber

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• Contrary to what you may think, an immoral act of any kind will only lower your self-esteem. Be true to yourselves, and your respect for yourself will increase. Know that yours is a divine birthright. Cultivate a good opinion of yourselves. Others may make cutting remarks concerning you. This is only a sign of their ignorance and not of your qualities. Walk with that dignity which is becoming a young woman who is a daughter of God.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Daughter, Self Esteem, Ignorance

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• When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.

  Tom Glazer

  Giving Up, Writing, Together

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• But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.

  Richard Owen

  Elude Us, Vagueness, Tests

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• I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.

  Dan Quayle

  Hunting, Noon, Politics

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