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In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
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In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
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In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
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In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
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Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
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Intelligence is like an underwear. It is important that you have it, but not necessary that you show it off.
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
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It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
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It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
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It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
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It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of an abundance or surplus arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. II, Government and Surplus Stocks, p. -
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
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It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.
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It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
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It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict.
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