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The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
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The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
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The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf - the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
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The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
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The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
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The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
The Dud Avocado (1958) I, 8 -
The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
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The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.
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The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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