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When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. — Therese of Lisieux
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes… — A. E. Housman
It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them. — Paul Claudel
Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some… — Christopher Hitchens
Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people… — Andrei Lankov
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in -… — Mark Twain
We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little. — StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was… — Brian Andreas
One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy… — F. C. S. Schiller
That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing. — Charles Spurgeon
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success. — Seneca the Younger
There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward. — Clayton Christensen
Usually kids who are talented have the brashness to think they can do anything, but they don't often get the chance to see how close… — Twyla Tharp
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. — Meryl Streep
It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience. — Christian Bale
There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and… — Anna Paquin
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and… — Maya Angelou
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. — William Barrett
Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes. — Bob Thaves

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