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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he… — Archibald MacLeish
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. — Boethius
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that â€˜In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we… — Ben Okri
With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't… — Walker Evans
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct… — Northrop Frye
I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by… — Shirley Chisholm
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality. — Edward Abbey
It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one… — Edward Abbey
Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the… — Edward Abbey
Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the… — Edward Abbey
Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space… — Edward Abbey
It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have… — Julian Barnes
Donâ€™t romanticise your â€˜vocationâ€™. You can either write good sentences or you canâ€™t. There is no â€˜writerâ€™s lifestyleâ€™. All that matters is what you leave… — Zadie Smith
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make… — Frederic Bastiat
You either have to be first, best, or different. — Loretta Lynn
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the… — Samuel Adams
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and… — 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

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