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• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend, rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.

  Francis Quarles

  Friendship, Sweet, Lying

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• I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

  Abel Ferrara

  Dvds, Persons, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

  Mason Cooley

  Lonely, People, Flow

  "City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's always a truth in specific. The gospel is never a commentary on ideas or cultures or conditions; it's always about actual persons, actual pains, actual troubles, actual sin; you, me; who you are and what you've done; who I am and what I've done.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Pain, Who I Am, Ideas

  Eugene H. Peterson (1997). “Leap over a wall: earthy spirituality for everyday Christians”

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• For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Appreciation, Betrayal

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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• Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Life, Heart, Mean

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• I am the illegal alien of commentary. I will do the jokes that no one else will do.

  Ann Coulter

  Aliens, Illegal, Jokes

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.76, Crown Forum

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• Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Depressing, Kissing

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• Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

  Niels Bohr

  Technology, Years, Opposites

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• I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.

  Elayne Boosler

  Running, Extremely Funny, Said

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• A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Political, Passionate, Feats

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• Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own running commentary on the preposterous and bewildering events of the hour: and this, nowadays, is what passes for conversation.

  Jan Struther

  Running, Feelings, Mind

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.88, Prabhat Prakashan

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• My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Soul, Cry

  1965 Report to Greco.

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• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  Rachel Cusk

  Thinking, Community, Black

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• I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's nothing that she does that isn't funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It's so smart. They've done some brilliant commentary about the 'Housewives' with 'Queen of Jordan,' their show-within-the-show.

  Andy Cohen

  Queens, Smart, Rocks

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• The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.

  Nick Clegg

  Thinking, Sides, Clock

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• In my mind's eye Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

  A. S. Byatt

  Weed, Eye, Fire

  "Reading while you're wonder-wounded" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Success equals goals; all else is commentary

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Goal, Productivity

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2015

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• Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape and a monumental size. Its value lies in its attention to detail and its full discussion of all relevant and disputed points. The volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students. Not all Hoehner's conclusions will command consent, but he has produced a stout and readable volume that all will turn to for guidance and help.

  Ralph P. Martin

  Lying, Book, Details

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• Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

  Anthony Bourdain

  Culture, World, American Culture

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• What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Practice, Civilization, Solitude

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to have him removed from his position as Lord Voldemort's Favorite Death Eater. My response prompted several further letters from Mr. Malfoy, but as they consisted mainly of opprobrious remarks on my sanity, parentage, and hygiene, their relevance to this commentary is remote.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death Eaters, Hygiene, Long

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• What does she (J. K. Rowling) hope people will take with them about this time? “When all the fuss and hoopla dies away, and when all the press commentary dies away, I think it will be seen that this phenomenon was generated, in the first instance, by kids loving a book. A book went on shelves, and a few people loved it. When all of the smoke and lights die away, that’s what you’ll be left with. “And that’s the most wonderful thought for an author.

  Melissa Anelli

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Melissa Anelli (2011). “Harry, A History - Enhanced with Videos and Exclusive J.K. Rowling Interview: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Zero, Real, Stupid

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• Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Writing, Criticism

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2009). “Seven Nights”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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