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  • Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
  • People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
  • As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
  • The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.
  • I always keep a supply of liquor handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.
  • Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
  • Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
  • Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
  • Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
  • Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Groucho Marx I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
    ― Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Alice Walker All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
    ― Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Brad Sherman Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
    ― Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
    ― G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • R A Dickson Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
    ― R A Dickson
     
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
    ― Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Groucho Marx As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case of divorce and so will my wife.
    ― Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
    ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton ''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''
    ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
    ― Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Finley Peter Dunne A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
    ― Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Alan Dershowitz A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
    ― Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Simone Weil A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
    ― Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Boris Johnson All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
    ― Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
    ― Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Brad Feld As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.
    ― Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Oscar Wilde As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
    ― Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Lincoln As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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