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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn`t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham
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You don`t pay back your parents. You can`t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It`s a sort of entailment. Or if you don`t have children of the body, it`s left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God,...
Lois McMaster Bujold
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
Lance Morrow
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There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough
Josh Billings
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I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it`s too expensive to change the interface.
Jaron Lanier
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley
Subject: Apathy QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim`s sympathies
Henry Brooks Adams
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A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.
Forest E. Witcraft
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A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it
Emile Capouya
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I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason
Edmund Burke
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius
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Of course there`s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don`t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
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The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
Abdulkhaleq Abdulla
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P.G. Wodehouse
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P.G. Wodehouse
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The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to “put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest...
Terry Pratchett
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It`s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll
Subject: Imagination QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
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Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
Nelson Algren
Subject: Chicago QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We`re dreamers, you see, but we`re also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson
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A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend`s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she`s really attractive.
Bruce Jay Friedman
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
George Shaw
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I don`t think either the Offspring or Green Day started their bands with the intention of becoming so enormously popular; that sort of fell in their laps-especially the Offspring. My attitude is if somebody blunders into the level of popularity, at least ...
Jello Biafra
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one`s mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Walt Disney
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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell
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Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
