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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to…
— Walter Isaacson
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we…
— Halle Berry
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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I talked to Snoop Doggy Dog today. Well I'm not sure if you could really call it talked because I could hardly understand what he…
— Marilyn Manson
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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without…
— Francis Bacon
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Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through…
— Diana Nyad
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of…
— Ugo Betti
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Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
— Michel de Montaigne
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a…
— William Hazlitt
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it…
— Andre Gide
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They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I…
— George Carlin
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person leaves vivid memories;…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
— Jonathan Swift
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.
— Louis Kronenberger
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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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