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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph - green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
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Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
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Having children truly ends adolescence. We are all either parents or children: responsibility-takers or those who demand from others.
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He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
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Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
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I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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I don't care how paranoid and irrational this makes me sound, but I know for a fact that the people of Paris want me dead.
Source: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe -
I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.
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