“ I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ”
- Christopher Morley- Copy
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“ Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ”
- Angelique Arnauld- Copy
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“ People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent.". ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
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“ Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ It is always the best policy to speak the truth — unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
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“ The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. ”
- Thomas Hardy- Copy
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“ How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! ”
- Samuel Adams- Copy
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“ When I am pained, I find the old theory of the uselessness of communicating the circumstances of it, singularly untenable. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering. ”
- Ada Leverson- Copy
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“ The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel. ”
- John Dos Passos- Copy
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“ Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. ”
- B. C. Forbes- Copy
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“ While this stellar non-inflationary economic expansion still appears remarkably stress-free on the surface, there are developing imbalances that give us pause. ”
- Alan Greenspan- Copy
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“ Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel. ”
- Robyn Davidson- Copy
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“ Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. ”
- Dennis Potter- Copy
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“ What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? ”
- Alfred Russel Wallace- Copy
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