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  • As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
  • The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
  • I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
  • Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
  • This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.
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  • Georges Clemenceau America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Christopher Morley There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Beatrice Wood And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Albert Camus As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Harold Macmillan As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • John Lennon As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Caroline Lawrence At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jeff Raskin Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
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  • Alexander Hamilton In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Barbara Deming Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual... making it impossible for him simply to strike back without thought and with all his strength.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Annie Dillard No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.' Baloney!
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Anita Roddick Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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