#remained

My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't. ↗

— Renee Fleming

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For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance. ↗

— Roger Mudd

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I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera. ↗

— Pola Negri

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He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. ↗

— Anthony Powell

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Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense. ↗

— Jonathan King

#peter #quiet #remained #sense #shy

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

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I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child. ↗

— Dick Francis

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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language. ↗

— Roman Jakobson

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But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people. ↗

— Paul Robeson

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