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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on… — Charles Babbage
Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which… — Michele Bachmann
The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running. — Dennis Banks
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. — Dave Barry
I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry
Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how… — Jeff Bezos
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. — Ambrose Bierce
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant… — Ben Affleck
I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They… — Elayne Boosler
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. — William J. Brennan
You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of… — Alton Brown
It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. — Bill Bryson
It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual… — James Buchan
In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the… — Steve Albini
It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself. — Julie Burchill
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of… — Edmund Burke
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. — Julius Caesar
Actual violence has no attraction for me at all. — Jane Campion
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating… — Jim Carrey

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