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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
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A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
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A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
Source: Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) p. 45 -
A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
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A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.
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A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.
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A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
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A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
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A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
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A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
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