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  • Charles Caleb Colton Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Bruce Sterling Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Hardy Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock We’re after the drawing-room type, the real ladies, who become whores once they’re in the bedroom.
    François Truffaut - Hitchcock/Truffaut
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Walt Whitman What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Helen Rowland What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Conrad What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Audre Lorde What do we want from each other
    after we have told our stories.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Carl Stokes What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • Samuel Butler What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, ''I bet that my Redeemer liveth.''
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ernest Hemingway What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Allen Tate What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • W. M. Thackeray What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bruce Lee What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds body feel and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Carlyle What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barbara Castle What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Burton Richter What we're really after is trying to understand what's in the mind of God.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Nora Ephron What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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