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  • Carl Hagelin In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Robert Runcie In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
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  • Bill Alexander Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
    Bill Alexander
    German painter, art instructor, and television host (1915 - 1997)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • James Baldwin It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • May Sarton It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Bruce Lee Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Margaret Sackville Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
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  • Henry Miller Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Brit Morin Our generation grew up with technology. It evolved as we grew up. This new generation has had it since they were babies. That's crazy. It fundamentally changes they way they understand and think about technology. They've never known life without it, whereas we knew life without the Internet.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Andy Warhol People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television - you don't feel anything.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Beth Ditto Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Billy Bragg So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bille August The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Anton Chekhov The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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