"Wanting things to be otherwise is the very……" — Stephen Levine

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• People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. — Dave Barry
• Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance… — Christopher Alexander
• Goalies almost never get credit for winning a game, but they always get blamed for losing a game. — Steve Carell
• Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least… — Carl Sagan
• I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does… — Malcolm X
• A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's… — Russell Lynes
• Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given… — George Orwell
• Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of… — Stephen Jay Gould
• Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always… — Eugene H. Peterson
• One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough… — David Foster Wallace
• Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that… — Edward Weston
• I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of… — Galen Rowell

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