Usually Quotes
4349 quotes by 3077 authors
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Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
— C.S. Lewis
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No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
— C.S. Lewis
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Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
— Walter Lippmann
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People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but…
— H. L. Mencken
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The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins.
— Ward Lambert
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
— Damon Albarn
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When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will…
— Flannery O'Connor
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I'm usually homeboys with the same ni**as I'm rhyming wit/But this is hip-hop and them ni**as should know what time it is/And that goes for…
— Kendrick Lamar
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The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk…
— Tom Peters
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Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a…
— Daniel Nathans
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What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell…
— Bernard Arnault
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The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same…
— Kanye West
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All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases,…
— Sigmund Freud
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Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django…
— Charlie Byrd
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I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
— Tracy Kidder
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I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a…
— Tracy Kidder
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When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life
— Tracy Kidder
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.
— Jerry Brown
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