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• The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

  Will Durant

  Strong, War, Mean

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization: Caesar and Christ, a history of Roman civilization and of Christianity from their beginnings to A.D. 325”

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• The hardest thing about life is that every now and then you have to do things so you have something to tweet about.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny Life, Life Is, Tweet

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• To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Heart, Men, Giving

  Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”

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• Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing is going through your mind; you're not thinking of anything. Every now and then you surprise yourself. Where did that come from?

  Jimmy Knepper

  Thinking, Play, Mind

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• If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Data, Support You

  "The Burden of Skepticism" by Carl Sagan, 1987.

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• As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Life, Mother, Lost Love

  Oliver Goldsmith (2012). “She Stoops to Conquer”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• You know, it's okay to admit a little weakness now and then, Cammie. It won't kill you. In fact, I hear it makes you stronger.

  Ally Carter

  Stronger, Weakness, Littles

  Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.200, Hachette UK

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• He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

  Steven Erikson

  Song, Blessed, Men

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• A fool must now and then be right, by chance

  William Cowper

  Truth, Humorous, Intellectual

  "Conversation" l. 96 (1782)

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• I will always take on a new challenge. I believe in jumping off the ship every now and then. If you don't, you won't really learn how to swim

  Alec Broers, Baron Broers

  Believe, Athlete, Jumping

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• To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.

  Julian Huxley

  Wall, Science, Keys

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• According to their [Newton and his followers] doctrine, God Almighty wants to wind up his watch from time to time: otherwise it would cease to move. He had not, it seems, sufficient foresight to make it a perpetual motion. Nay, the machine of God's making, so imperfect, according to these gentlemen; that he is obliged to clean it now and then by an extraordinary concourse, and even to mend it, as clockmaker mends his work.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  God, Moving, Wind

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• The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Success, Stress, Men

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• Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Men, Littles, Way

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• A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Poison, Littles

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• Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

  James Thurber

  Lonely, Character, Men

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.1162, Library of America

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• Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Health, Exercise, Science

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.

  Robert Burns

  Stupid, Drinking, Food

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• Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Gymnastics, World

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• Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.

  Victoria Glendinning

  Weed, Flower, Garden

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• Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the territory of compassion. You've met them, too, those people who seem to emit a steady stream of, for want of a better word, love-vibes. As soon as you come within range, you feel embraced, accepted for who you are. For those of us who suspect that you rarely get something for nothing, such geniality can be discomfiting. Yet it feels so good to be around them. They stand there, radiating photons of goodwill, and despite yourself you beam back, and the world, in a twinkling, changes.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Life, Acceptance, Compassion

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• I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy so that I would have an advantageous position of attack, but I seem now and then to have forgotten my mission, and to have taken my disguises too seriously.

  John Cheever

  Taken, Class, Decision

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• It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter; I mean so long as the judiciary remains truly distinct from both the legislature and the Executive. For I agree, that "there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers." And it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have every thing to fear from its union with either of the other departments.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Judging, Long

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.380, Coventry House Publishing

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• When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?

  Herman Cain

  Jobs, President, Occupy Movement

  "Exclusive: Herman Cain Feeling 'Like Moses' and Ready for Media 'Gotcha' Questions". "The Brody File Show", October 8, 2011.

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• What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of these accumulating experiences which were mine only by force of inertia required a violent effort. Now and then I lunged and tore at the net, but only to become more enmeshed. My liberation seemed to involve pain and suffering to those near and dear to me. Every move I made for my own private good brought about reproach and condemnation. I was a traitor a thousand times over.

  Henry Miller

  Pain, Moving, Destiny

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