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Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we…
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Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to…
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I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys.…
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There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.
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There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await…
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Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.
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I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from…
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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought…
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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the…
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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
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After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among…
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You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
— Alexander MacLaren
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial…
— Robert K. Merton
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Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.
— John Donne
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There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."
— John L'Heureux
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
— Nicolas Chamfort
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This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
— Deepak Chopra
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Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.
— Sonia Rykiel
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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
— Thomas Browne
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my…
— Gail Devers
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What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me…
— Sylvia Plath
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since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a…
— E E Cummings
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life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
— E E Cummings
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