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Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.
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Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
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A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
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An hour sitting with a pretty girl passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour. That's relativity.
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But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
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Capital isn't this pile of money sitting somewhere; it's an accounting construct.
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Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Cuban athletes represent the most expensive human cargo on earth. They are sitting on over a billion dollars of human capital if these boxers and baseball players would come over to any other field or ring in the world and begin to ply their trade.
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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
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Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.
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