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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...],… — Elizabeth Bishop
Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed… — Robinson Jeffers
I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits… — Valentina Tereshkova
My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled… — Stan Getz
When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get… — Matthew Woodring Stover
The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*. — Jonathan Lethem
I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking… — Ian Fleming
But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves without a fortune… — Maureen Johnson
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power… — Shigeru Ban
Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims — Anne McCaffrey
Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there. — Venus Williams
There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring… — Ziad K. Abdelnour
Be encouraged to be an encourager. It's a spiritual art that everyone can learn. And mostly you learn by practicing it. — Jill Briscoe
College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em. — George Eliot
I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden. — Janet McTeer
Literature is all, or mostly, about sex. — Anthony Burgess
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by… — George Bernard Shaw
There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets… — Don Bassingthwaite
Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2.9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is… — Marq de Villiers
History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled… — Scott Berkun

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