Quotes with chose…though

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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Cockburn It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bobby Charlton It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.
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  • Bob Saget It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Asa Gray It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Bobby Darin It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Susan Sontag It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe - though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bertie Carvel It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of truth in the way someone else paints you, however subjective they might be.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Ann Beattie It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Pope John XXIII Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
    Pope John XXIII
    Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
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  • A. A. Milne James James
    Morrison Morrison
    Weatherby George Dupree
    Took great
    Care of his Mother,
    Though he was only three.
    James James Said to his Mother,
    'Mother,' he said, said he;
    'You must never go down
    to the end of the town,
    if you don't go down with me.'
    Disobedience
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Archibald MacLeish Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Blaise Pascal Kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Anthea Turner Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
    Anthea Turner
    English television presenter (1960 - )
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  • Carol Shields Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Barbara Jordan Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Ferdinand I Let justice be done, though the world perish.
    Original: Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
    Latin
    Ferdinand I
    Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1503 - 1564)
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  • Bram Stoker Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
    Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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