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  • Jacques Maritain I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Gore Vidal I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Anton Chekhov I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Adam Osborne I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Bill Bryson I'd turn on the lights, but they're blown. I'd offer you a seat, but there isn't one. I'd offer you a drink from the minibar, but there doesn't appear to be one. It certainly is basic. Basic? It's a bloody cell!
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bruno Tonioli I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Ben Affleck I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • William Blake If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Alan Watts If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Kriyananda In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
    Kriyananda
    Romanian-born religious leader (born James Donald Walters) (1926 - 2013)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alexander Maclaren In heaven after ''ages of ages'' of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, ''It doth not yet appear what we shall be.''
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Ansel Adams In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Gilbert Adair In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.''
    Gilbert Adair
    Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist. (1944 - 2011)
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  • A. Benson Cannon It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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