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A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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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 general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
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A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
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A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
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A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
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A gentleman reading a poem that began with Where is that man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen? calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering No, demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen.Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden -
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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