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It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning,…
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Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you…
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The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form…
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The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.
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But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how…
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The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance
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It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a…
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The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
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You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but…
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We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.
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Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
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Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What…
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It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.
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It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a…
— John Lanchester
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When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they'd need to keep the perimeter. Men…
— Jack Donovan
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Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying…
— Charles Lindbergh
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My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid…
— John Phillips
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The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Power is of an encroaching nature.
— James Madison
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
— James K. Polk
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The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each…
— Dan Quayle
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Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing…
— Jonathan Lethem
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I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did,…
— Jamie Lee Curtis
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