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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things… — Joseph Wood Krutch
I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer. — Edmund Hillary
A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are. — Elbert Hubbard
Flattery is like wine, which exhilarates a man for a moment, but usually ends by going to his head and making him act foolishly. — Helen Rowland
I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,… — Agatha Christie
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy. — Walter Savage Landor
Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind. — Joseph Campbell
When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for… — Blaise Pascal
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore… — Ernest Hemingway
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant… — Raymond Chandler
Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to… — Andy Warhol
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. — Kenneth Tynan
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. — Steve Miller
In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth… — John Stuart Mill
Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation… — Desmond Morris
Literature usually begets literature. — Susan Sontag
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts… — Barbara Ehrenreich
When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy… — Luke Perry
Usually we are saying only part of the truth. — Erno Rubik

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