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A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
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A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
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A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
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A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
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A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
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A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
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A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.
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A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
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A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.
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A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
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A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.
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A lot of people say to me, ''Why did you kill Christ?'' ''I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.'' ''We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.''
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A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.
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A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.
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A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
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