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• If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

  Cesare Pavese

  Fighting, Years, People

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.54, Transaction Publishers

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• Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

  D. H. Lawrence

  People, Hypocrisy, Bluffs

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3740, Delphi Classics

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• First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Mean, Goal

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• It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.

  William Faulkner

  Death, Men, Thinking

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.172, Modern Library

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• Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.

  Jay Leno

  Halloween, Kids, Apples

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• Scientists say that Texas and Antarctica were connected at one time. In fact, early Mexicans used to go through Texas to try to sneak into Antarctica.

  Jay Leno

  Texas, Trying, Facts

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• I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Punishment, People

  "It just occurred to me that this is the day I was not meant to see". TV Interview with Gill Nevill on Brighton Bomb for Channel 4 "A plus 4", www.margaretthatcher.org. October 15, 1984.

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• In my work, you get used to criticisms. Of course you do, because there are a lot of people trying to get you down, but I always cheer up immensely if one is particularly wounding because I think well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. That is why my father always taught me: never worry about anyone who attacks you personally; it means their arguments carry no weight and they know it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cheer, Father, Mean

  TV Interview with Enzo Biagi for Italian Television (RAI), www.margaretthatcher.org. March 10, 1986.

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• President Ford used humor a great deal.

  Robert Orben

  President, Deals, President Ford

  "Congress tries Ford's way - The late president's emphasis on compromise is recalled as the 110th Congress is set to convene". Gail Russell Chaddock, Christian Science Monitor, January 3, 2007.

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• Number 45 doesn't explode like Number 23 used to.

  Michael Jordan

  Numbers

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• I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Husband, Party, Home

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• You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

  Adam Ross

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.

  Molly Quinn

  Thinking, Knowing, Ties

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

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• I find 12 P.M. as the best time to work out. During training, I do two body parts a day: chest-back, back-triceps or chest-biceps so that my body doesn't get used to a pattern.

  Arjun Rampal

  Two, Work Out, Training

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• I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.

  Arjun Rampal

  Athlete, Active, Ran

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• When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.

  Bill Cosby

  Football, Children, Silly

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• Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wheels, Wealth, Engineers

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

  John Milton

  Light, Umpires, Safe

  1665 Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.3, l.194-7.

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• If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.

  Spike Milligan

  Men, Ifs, Dies

  "Rommel? Gunner Who? A Confrontation in the Desert". Book by Spike Milligan, 1974.

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• Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Space, Magic, News

  "Sourcery". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Looks, Saws

  1970 Of World War I. Fifth Business, pt.2, ch.1.

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• It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always looked like models hired from an advertising agency, and probably were.

  Robertson Davies

  Dog, Taken, Agency

  "Mehitabel". 1959.

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• Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.

  Randall Jarrell

  Country, Confused, Passion

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "The Development of Yeats's Sense of Reality" (p. 89), 1980.

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• People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.

  Ani DiFranco

  Gun, Shoes, People

  "Song: "Fuel"". 1998.

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• Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

  Neil Gaiman

  Legends, Truth Is, Enough

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