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I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.


Anne Lamott


#annoying #audience #din #fraud #fright

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.


Nigel Short


#just #problems #serious #solved #surely

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.


Charles Babbage


#country #dalton #drudgery #elementary #employed

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.


William Barclay


#good #our #people #surely #time

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.


Augustine Birrell


#already #bad #bath #become #conspirators

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.


Omar N. Bradley


#fail #guilt #just #must #prevent

I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'


Cate Blanchett


#always #certainly #direct #film #i

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.


Clifford Geertz


#argue #ever #facts #fit #here

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.


Soren Kierkegaard


#bore #bores #contradict #great #himself

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.


Terry Waite


#destroys #dies #extinguish #life #light