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  • J. G. Ballard The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Mark Twain Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Mary Decker Slaney I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.
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  • Henry David Thoreau If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Carlyle In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Harry Mathews Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
    Harry Mathews
    American writer (1930 - 2017)
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  • E. B. White The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Horace While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Harold S. Geneen You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ouida A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Bill Viola A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Bill Cosby A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Mark Twain A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Katchor A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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