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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
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There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
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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 plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.
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There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
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