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Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine… — Robert Browning
I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes… — Randall Jarrell
Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it. — P.G. Wodehouse
To finally get that call from the doctor that you're pregnant and you're having a baby.... It was just another world. — Giuliana Rancic
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism — Paul de Man
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. — Edward Abbey
Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get… — Edward Abbey
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. — Edward Abbey
And now the moment. Such a moment has a peculiar character. It is brief and temporal indeed, like every moment; it is transient as all… — Zadie Smith
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that… — Katrina vanden Heuvel
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice… — Thomas Jefferson
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate… — Thomas Jefferson
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any… — George Washington
Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly… — Thomas Paine
The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult… — Thomas Paine
There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my 'deeper' work. Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it.… — Richard Avedon
We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit — Michael Bolton
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they meanâ€“â€“make sure they know what they mean! — John Irving
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One… — William Dean Howells
I'm at the top of my game so, when I win or lose, I don't freak out...I don't think we can call it a rivalry… — Roger Federer

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