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Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A… — Alexander Hamilton
Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves. — Theodor Reik
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that if we have received His fullness, 'rivers of living water' will flow… — Oswald Chambers
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we… — Ihab Hassan
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically… — Unknown Author
A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order… — Derren Brown
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! — Oscar Wilde
One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves… — Fernando Pessoa
The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but… — John Stuart Mill
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their… — Raymond Chandler
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the… — Andrew Carnegie
My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually. — Unknown Author
Once a person is at the center of love, there is very rarely a possibility for him to fall back down, because he has tasted… — Rajneesh
We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more… — Barack Obama
Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time… — Martin Fleischmann
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom… — Thomas Jefferson
The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards. — Albert Einstein
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware… — Diane Johnson
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way. — Kazuo Ishiguro
The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation. — Lauren Bacall
The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists. — V. S. Pritchett

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