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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
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What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is…
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When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
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Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.
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Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
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When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and…
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Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
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This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may…
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You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may…
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There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical…
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Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
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As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page…
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We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what…
— Daniel Pauly
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It’s funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it’s that life changes, but you…
— Lights
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We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of…
— Richard Heinberg
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We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust…
— Dan Rather
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Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.
— Ellen Goodman
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When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down,…
— Michael Haneke
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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept…
— Charles Bukowski
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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life…
— Julian Barnes
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