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• I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Cat, Laughing

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• ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Thinking, Buying

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• Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they're crazy. We don't do things like that. Our number-one law is 'Have fun in this lifetime, but don't hurt anybody.' Nice little paraphrase of "An it harm none, do as ye will" if I do say so myself.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Dog, Baby, Hurt

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• The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause its indirect self-destruction.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Player, Self, Records

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• To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

  Roger Zelazny

  Oedipus, Guy, Wish

  Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos”

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• There is a wonderful ancient Sufi saying which I'm going to paraphrase slightly. It says, 'When the heart weeps for what it has lost,' in this case 'heart' means 'ego,' 'when the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices for what it has found.'

  Eckhart Tolle

  Heart, Mean, Ego

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• To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

  Mark Galli

  Confused, Cheesy, Honor

  Mark Galli (2011). “Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.118, Baker Books

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• The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

  Giordano Bruno

  Stars, Sky, Religion

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• Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is looming. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, you cannot screw all of the people all of the time. We're there. All we lack is a major precipitant – our Tunisian fruit seller. When it happens the revolution will be deep and lasting.

  Robert David Steele

  Agency, People, Corporations

  "The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy". Interview with Nafeez Ahmed, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2014.

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• God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

  George Herbert

  Heart, Men, Soul

  Marianne Dorman, George Herbert (2009). “Seven Whole Days to Praise Our God: An Arrangement of George Herbert's Poems for Christian Meditation”, p.48, AuthorHouse

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• I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Dumb

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• "God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten
  But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

  Macklemore

  Children, Book, Years

  "Song: 'Same Love'". 2012.

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• I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

  Wolf Kahn

  Names, Age, Add

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• To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how; but 80 percent is knowing why. If we gather a set of strong enough reasons to change, we can change in a minute something we've failed to change for years.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Strong, Knowing

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

  Richard Howard

  Translations

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• But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.

  Rafe Esquith

  Teacher, Children, Ignorance

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• [On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

  Marianne Moore

  Writing, Amber, Use

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• To paraphrase the great Will Rogers, El Rusho never met a pharmacist he did not like.

  Bill Maher

  Roger, Mets, Pharmacist

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• Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

  John Cage

  Music, Strong, Ears

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• I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

  Steven Weber

  Coward, Noel, Bitter

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.

  W. H. Auden

  Two, Translate, Reader

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• All paraphrases and expletives are so much in disuse that soon the only way of making love will be to say, "Lie down.

  Hugh Walpole

  Lying, Making Love, Way

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• The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Thousand, Prettiest, Literal

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the Bible. The Word of God is being rewritten, watered down, illustrated, and dramatized in order to cater to the taste of the carnal mind. That only leads further into the wilderness of doubt and confusion.

  Dave Hunt

  Spiritual, Religious, Book

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• Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Parliament, Wells, Extremes

  Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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