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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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Bunting is usually a waste of time. The - generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The - if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
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But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
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By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
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Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
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Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
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Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
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Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
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