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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#cause #clients #congenial #did #duty

'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#bit #characters #closed #connected #emotionally

You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#had #know #never #ticking #time

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ↗

— John Acton

#being #constitution #country #democracy #democratic

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand. ↗

— Brooks Adams

#difference #five #hundred #influence #reaches

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. ↗

— George Ade

#country #entertainment #form #funeral #interruption

How wrong and petty any life is. ↗

— David Wojahn

#human-nature #experience

God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong. ↗

— Melissa Coleman

#mystical #spiritual #spirituality #universe #dreams

You could tell that America was gearing up for war. ↗

— Jack Adams

#could #gearing #tell #up #war

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. ↗

— Joey Adams

#fool #kiss #never #you