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A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
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A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100, 000 short.
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A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
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A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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After we did the last Allman Brothers Band show, my wife and I just packed up and went to France for pretty much all of 2015, and I just got bored; I got the itch. I wanna play.
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Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last?
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All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13 -
All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
Political Theology (1922) -
All my plays are masterpieces except the last one.
George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays -
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
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All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 :
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