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  • Michel Faber The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
    Het boek van wonderlijke nieuwe dingen (2014)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Beth Henley Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Angela Carter There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Barry Took There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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  • Bobby Schilling There are still times when I am walking up, and I look at the Capitol, and I think, 'Oh my goodness.' Right now, I am kind of scared to go onto the floor and speak. Once I get used to it, though, they probably won't be able to keep me off there.
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  • P. D. James There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Atom Egoyan There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Al Goldstein There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Aaron Burr There is a maxim, 'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.' It is a maxim for sluggards. A better reading of it is, 'Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow,' because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
    Aaron Burr
    American politician and lawyer (1756 - 1836)
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  • Jean Cocteau There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Alain de Botton There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Will Rogers There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Lord George Byron There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Paul Goodman There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Edith Wharton There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Woodrow Wilson There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Adam Clymer There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
    Adam Clymer
    American journalist (1937 - 2018)
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