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• e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker"… — Albert Einstein
• "I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but… — William Montgomery Watt
• I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you… — Faith Baldwin
• I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the… — Jacques Rivette
• So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
• I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so… — Joyce Carol Oates
• A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain… — William Makepeace Thackeray
• Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will… — Margaret Atwood
• A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out… — Azar Nafisi
• Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be… — Stephen Jay Gould

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