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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
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A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
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An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
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Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.
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As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.
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At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
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