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Of course, this is the season to be jolly, but it is also a good time to be thinking about those who aren't.

Helen Valentine

Christmas, Thinking, Good Times

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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.

Edward Abbey

Lying, Writing, Enemy

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.37, RosettaBooks

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You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.

John Foster Dulles

Running, Art, Strong

In Life 16 Jan. 1956

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I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do.

Kin Hubbard

Birthday, Sorry, Memories

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When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.

Julian Barnes

Falling In Love, Thumbs Down, Doe

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When your car is about to go off a cliff, it’s a weird time to be thinking about gas mileage and drag coefficients; better to take the right control action—look out the window and steer or use the brake until you’re back on course.

Michael Bolton

Thinking, Car, Looks

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Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.

Edward Abbey

Beer, Ugly, Chance

"The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Second Rape of the West"), 1977.

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Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the fullness of Celestial glory: for baptism is instituted for the remission of sins; and if a person does not take the necessary steps to obtain pardon of sins, of course, he cannot be saved in the kingdom of God.

Orson Pratt

Men, Water, Baptism

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All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop books. And the other thing they said was, 'You have to confront the oppressor.' I understand that. But you don't have to look at the world through his eyes. I'm not a stereotype; I'm not somebody else's version of who I am. And so when people said at that time black is beautiful – yeah? Of course. Who said it wasn't? So I was trying to say, in The Bluest Eye, wait a minute. Guys. There was a time when black wasn't beautiful. And you hurt.

Toni Morrison

Beautiful, Hurt, Book

"Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.

Terry Pratchett

Rivers, Water, Citizens

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Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You can’t really blame people for preferring more of what they already know and like. The trade-off, of course, is that predictability is boring. Repetition is the death of magic.

Bill Watterson

Disappointment, People, Risk

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I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

Angela Merkel

Strong, Sorry, Team

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.

John Mica

Tsa, Shoes, Diapers

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But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Terry Pratchett

Eagles, One Day, Doe

Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.10, Random House

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In life's brief game to be a winner
A man must have...oh yes, above
All else, of course, someone to love.

Vikram Seth

Men, Games, Winner

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Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong.

Terry Pratchett

Mean, Blood, Chill

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Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

Terry Pratchett

Stress, Pet, Helping

"Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.

Vikram Seth

Needs, Propensity, Mesmerized

Vikram Seth (1993). “A Suitable Boy”, p.609, Penguin Books India

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The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

Carl Jung

Struggle, Years, Collective Unconscious

"Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation". Book by Carl Jung. Chapter 5, p. 271, 1921.

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Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.

B. F. Skinner

Memories, Men, Thinking

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It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

Friedrich Nietzsche

Inspiration, Men, Feelings

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To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Fabius Maximus

Men, Office, Opinion

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From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

Polybius

Judging, Serious, Study

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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

Henry A. Kissinger

Believe, Men, Essence

"The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States.

Martin Denny

Parent, Age, United States

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