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It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious… — Victor Hugo
The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped… — Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous.… — Joel Achenbach
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed… — Lillian Hellman
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through… — George Orwell
In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted.… — Anne Truitt
I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular… — Emma Watson
It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with every draught in… — Zadie Smith
Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched… — Bea Arthur
Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other… — Elie Wiesel
Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in… — Galen Rowell
None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing — Abraham Lincoln
Realizing that other people have a problem with [homosexuality] was the weirdest thing for me. As a kid it wasn't even something that was mentioned.… — Daniel Radcliffe
Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager:… — Hugh Hefner
Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable. — Harold MacMillan
For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon.… — Ban Ki-moon
It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure… — William Cecil Dampier
[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot… — Charles Francis Richter
He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of… — Jorge Luis Borges
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do. — George Orwell
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events,… — Lois Tilton
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me,… — Adolf Hitler
I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated… — Adolf Hitler
The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and… — Pearl S. Buck

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