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• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

  Ed O'Brien

  Watches, Tvs, Presses

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• Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Home, Tired, House

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• Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Clerks, Palaces, Mock

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• Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Writing, Effort, Quality

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane. Chapter 1, 1935.

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• I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

  Helen Keller

  Tragedy, Apathy, Way

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.

  Philip Schaff

  Song, Gratitude, Book

  Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.182, Library of Alexandria

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• But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

  William Godwin

  Parent, Care, Youth

  William Godwin (1823). “The Enquirer”, p.60

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• There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

  Hamlin Garland

  Light, Wife, Toil

  1899 Boy Life on the Prairie,'Melons and Early Frost'.

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• Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

  Penelope Lively

  Past, Perception, Suits

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• Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

  Clive James

  Dancing, Nails, Giants

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

  Anne Rice

  Literature, Possibility, Feathers

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• Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Always Trying, Literature, World

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• You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

  Don Bluth

  Pouring, Holes

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.

  Ted Dexter

  Grind, Cricket

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• Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

  W. Heath Robinson

  Design, Guests, May

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• It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

  Michael Scheuer

  War, Thinking, Self

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• Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Bothering You, Endless Time, Hands

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.38, Modern Library

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• The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

  Honore de Balzac

  Karma, Past, Secret

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

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• The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Sea, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.825, Delphi Classics

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• Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Love Is, Secret

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• Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

  Jane Jacobs

  Squares, Density, Today

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.204, Vintage

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• I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

  Rachel Nichols

  Ice Cream, Simplicity, Flavor

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• The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by creating marginal spaces in which they can articulate and question their identity. Radical politics thus becomes an endless mocking parody and provocation, a gradual process of reidentification in which there are not final victories and ultimate demarcations

  Slavoj Žižek

  Creating, Space, Goal

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• If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle is greater than the pain of the desire. If I develop the habit of restraining myself, I'll enjoy the relief of feeling the desires pass, and I'll remember that desires are not the problem. Feeling pushed around by them is. I'll continue to have desires, of course, because I'm alive, but they'll be more modest in their demands.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Pain, Struggle, Temptation

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.

  Jennifer James

  Regret, Writing, Should Have

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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