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  • Erica Jong There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship - only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Bruce Catton There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Victor Hugo There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • William Hazlitt There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry Fielding There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Ben Goldacre There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Anne Brontë There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) Ch. XXII
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Joseph Joubert There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
    Original: Es ist immer etwas Wahnsinn in der Liebe. Es ist aber auch immer etwas Vernunft im Wahnsinn.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Callum Keith Rennie There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • David Lehman There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wrong and cooperate to fix things.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson There is but one art, to omit.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Edmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Samuel Butler There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Albert Camus There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Bill Nye There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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