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4349 Usually quotes by 2960 unique authors
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Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
— Viswanathan Anand
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I like to keep myself physically and mentally fit before any important match. I usually take a short nap just before the game and do…
— Viswanathan Anand
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If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone…
— Regina Brett
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Women do come up to me after a show, but it's usually to say, 'Yhank you for making us laugh,' and all that.
— Vir Das
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One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much less tense after…
— Noureen DeWulf
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New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches'…
— Martin Filler
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Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.
— Helen Fisher
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Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope,…
— Greg Graffin
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Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.
— Evgeny Morozov
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Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is…
— Evgeny Morozov
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There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the…
— Hanna Rosin
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The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually,…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
— Werner Herzog
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Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
— Thomas Friedman
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People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important…
— David Foster Wallace
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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water…
— Nhat Hanh
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When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
— Dean Koontz
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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read.…
— John Bellairs
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We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack…
— Harlan Ellison
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People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way…
— Gregory Maguire
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Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
— Saint Augustine
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