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The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse. ↗

— George Combe

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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. ↗

— John Gay

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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

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Lonesome Rhodes had wild mood swings. He'd be very happy, he'd be very said, he'd be very angry, very depressed, and I had to pull all of these emotions out of myself. And it wasn't easy. ↗

— Andy Griffith

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I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

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I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be. ↗

— Ofra Haza

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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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