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The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
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The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
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The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.
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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.
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Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
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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.
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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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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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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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.
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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.
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