Quotes with who-though

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  • Beeban Kidron At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Ada Leverson Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Rita Rudner Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
    Rita Rudner
    American comedian writer (1953 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
    Source: The Conquest Of Happiness
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Congreve Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Francis Bacon Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • James Russell Lowell But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Clarence Darrow Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Branch Rickey Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Frances Rodman Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological - resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • William S. Gilbert Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • John Donne Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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