"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail……" — Edward Gibbon

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• Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result… — Paul Auster
• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and… — Russell Baker
• I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. — Douglas Adams
• Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices… — Ezra Taft Benson
• To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular… — Michael Bloomberg
• The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm… — Albert Camus
• Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. — Emile M. Cioran
• I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours,… — Roger Angell
• Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,… — John Hospers
• Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and… — Joyce Meyer
• The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source. — Jean Cocteau
• We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. — Luc de Clapiers

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