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Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. — Ishmael Reed
I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts. — Edward Abbey
These days I must take the world in small and carefully measured doses. It is a sort of homeopathic cure I am undergoing, though I… — John Banville
I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I… — Jane Austen
It is all very well, in these changing times, to adapt one's work to take in duties not traditionally within one's realm; but bantering is… — Kazuo Ishiguro
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The… — Kazuo Ishiguro
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism â€” a sort of religious denial of God. It… — Thomas Paine
Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean… — Terry Pratchett
The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do… — Isaac Asimov
I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what… — Kurt Vonnegut
My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative… — John Hume
I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass. — Roger Federer
Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food… — Stephan Pastis
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic… — Alice Paul
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going… — Lana Del Rey
Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals… — Albert Ellis
But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but… — B.F. Skinner
If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to? — Maeve Binchy
All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom… — Sherwood Anderson
In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by… — Ada Lovelace

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