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If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves. — David Frum
For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever. — Joan D. Vinge
I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with… — Padma Lakshmi
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls… — Philip Guston
When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being… — Shunryu Suzuki
Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. — Pieter Geyl
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. — A J P Taylor
A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. — Susanna Kaysen
It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If someone is truly… — Chelsea Handler
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the… — Alexander Fleming
Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days. — George Eliot
The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence. — Walter Savage Landor
"It's better to give than to receive." Let me put this as elegantly as possible: "What a crock!" That statement is total hogwash, and in… — T. Harv Eker
An affirmation states that a goal is already happening. I'm not crazy about this because, often when we affirm something that is not yet real,… — T. Harv Eker
No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell… — Ludwig von Mises
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of… — Samuel Adams
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity. — Thomas Sowell
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed… — Owen Feltham

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