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It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

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• So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • English
  • Language
  • Novels

• I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Said
  • Going
  • Phones

• A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear.

  

  Edmond Rostand
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  • Kiss
  • Mouth

• Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Words
  • English

• The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Lord

• Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Life
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• I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • People
  • Never
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• Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Language
  • Story
  • DNA

• Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Think
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  • Independence

• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Fall
  • Said

• I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Like
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• A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

  

  Dan Devine
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• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
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• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
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• The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Language
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• Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
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• That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

  

  Barbara Hershey
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• Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.

  

  Iman
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Said

• Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Funny
  • Alive

• Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Time
  • Help
  • Needs

• The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Quality
  • Civilization
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• We are a very united group. We like to have fun, we like to joke around.

  

  Sam Brown
  • Fun
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• It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

  

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