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  • Nicolas Chamfort Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Boris Kodjoe Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Anne W. Schaef Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible - even when those steps are taken on the run.
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  • Bryant H. McGill Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Adam Duritz Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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  • Stephen King Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.
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    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Sometimes when you get to the press conferences, you hear you're going to play this person in the semifinals, and in the quarters, you're going to play her. And I'm like, 'Hold on a second.' First of all, you have to make it there. Second, your opponent needs to make it there. It looks easier on paper than it is in real life.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Donna Tartt Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Casey Wilson Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life, so once I let that go, I've just let it all go. I have no standard of personal dignity.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Terry Pratchett Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • J. G. Ballard Sooner or later, all games become serious.
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    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bill Lipinski Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • George Eliot Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alice Meynell Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Spite of all the fools that pride has made, 'Tis not on man a useless burthen laid; Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced; It hurts not in itself, but as 'tis placed; When right, its views know none but virtue's bound; When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Ouida Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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