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Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually.
CNN Larry King Weekend (2002) -
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
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Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
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Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.
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Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder.
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Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. ''I can t'' often means ''I won t.'' You can change ''I won t'' to ''I will'' with willpower.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
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Woman often feigns love; man, oftener, passion.
The maxims of Marmaduke -
World can be a bewildering place, and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps.
Tales from Firozsha Baag (2008) 117 -
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.
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Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
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Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
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Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
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You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Robert H. Schuller
American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015) -
You don't fight a war with words, but with fortifications. The pickaxe and the shovel are as important at the rifle. I can't say it often enough.
Interview (3 October 1936), as quoted in Durruti in the Spanish Revolution (1996) by Abel Paz, as translated by Chuck W. Morse (2007), p. 537
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