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  • Michael Ondaatje In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
    De Engelse patient (2011) 67
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • John Ruskin In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Joan Didion In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
    Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • A. E. van Vogt In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I later met Rogers who did some of my early covers and I was impressed with him.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • George Robert Gissing In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Srully Blotnick Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • B. F. Skinner It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Antoine Fuqua It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as a director first and we can segue into the colour thing later.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Philip Roth It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Quentin Crisp Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Bubba Watson Kids below 10 or 12, I think they just need to learn by playing at golf. Later on, in high school, when they develop muscles and everything, that's when they need to see about getting lessons.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bret Harte Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there
    Captain Jims Friend.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Robert Byrne Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Fanny Brice Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
    Fanny Brice
    American comedienne and singer (1891 - 1951)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Al Stewart Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
    Al Stewart
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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