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There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
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This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.
Source: The Intelligent Investor Ch. 7, Portfolio Policy: The Positive Side, p. 75 -
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase ''It is the busiest man who has time to spare.''
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.
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You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she's very chic and she dresses very well, and she's a woman. And she has a lot of power.
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
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