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Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
Source: The complete short stories (2001) -
Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
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Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
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Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
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Every little thing counts in a crisis.
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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
Source: A preface to Paradise Lost -
Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
Source: The Great Divorce (1944) -
Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.
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Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
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Every thing of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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