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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything
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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
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The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
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The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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The reason I stop playing songs is usually because I get sick of them, and then they find themselves back into the set list at some point.
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The shy man usually finds that he has been shy without a cause, and that, in practice, no one takes the slightest notice of him.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
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Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of research before I see a show - on the history of previous productions (if it's a revival) and the creative team.
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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
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There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.
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