Quotes with after-flavor

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  • Anthony Trollope In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Haniel Long In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy.
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Baba Kalyani India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Srully Blotnick Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.
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  • Barbara Boxer Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bud Abbott It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • Diane Arbus It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.
    Diane Arbus
    American photographer (1923 - 1971)
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  • Henry Manning It is a dangerous thing to accept gifts: for two days after come request.
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    Henry Manning
    British cleric and cardinal (1808 - 1892)
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  • Angela Davis It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Helen Rowland It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Samuel Butler It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Hannah Arendt It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Emily Carr It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Salman Rushdie It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Madame Guizot It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
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  • John F. Kennedy It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Al Sharpton It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Barbara Castle It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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