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  • Rohinton Mistry After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.
    Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 758
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Helene Deutsch After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
    Helene Deutsch
    Polish-American psychoanalyst (1884 - 1982)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
    The Remains of the Day (2009) 244
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Casey Affleck After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all 'Saved By the Bell' auditions.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Becki Newton After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Betty Carter After me there are no more jazz singers... It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
    Betty Carter
    American jazz singer (1929 - 1998)
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  • Bob Beauprez After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
    We cannot live without our lives
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Bill Budge After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
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  • William Shakespeare Against ill chances men are ever merry, but heaviness foreruns the good event.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Graham Greene Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • William Shakespeare Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Tryon Edwards Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carlos Pena Romulo Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
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