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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
In Reckless Ecstasy (1904) -
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
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There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
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There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.
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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
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There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
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There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
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There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
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There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.
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