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Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' [...] Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
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Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.
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Some fans have a mistaken opinion of the average umpire. He is human, all reports to the contrary. Every fellow who is successful is conscientious to almost a fault.
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
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Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) -
Some have said that what is happening now is the beginning of World War III. Fundamentalists take over countries with population flows across borders. After some time riots occur, as we see now in France. There is talk about 30,000 recruited suicide bombers.
About immigration, Islam etc. After the 2005 civil unrest in France, interviewed -
Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss.
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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
Love at Second Sight (1916) Ch. xviii -
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
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Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.
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Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
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Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
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Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.
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Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
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