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A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as… — Arne Jacobsen
We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when… — Terry Tempest Williams
I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it's harder and harder. You have to navigate just to… — Toni Morrison
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged… — Lewis H. Lapham
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose. — Norm MacDonald
There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack… — Herbert Newton Casson
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against… — Henry David Thoreau
The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.' — Leon Trotsky
Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love. — Miranda Lambert
You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually. — Pete Rose
The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. — Pete Rose
What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even… — Walker Evans
Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people. — Edward Abbey
Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent. — Edward Abbey
You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there… — Martin Amis
Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess… — Martin Amis
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of… — Mercy Otis Warren
The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as… — Eleanor Roosevelt
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good… — Richard Avedon
I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there — Lucinda Williams

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