William Wycherley Quotes
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
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I have a love for boxing.
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And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.
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We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.
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My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name is Zach Granddad Galifianakis.
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A sexy shoe is one that men like.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same time people saw while the government has these enormous austerity measures, that the government spent billions of euros on asylum seekers who really weren't asylum seekers but migrants looking for a better life.
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Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
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Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
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We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
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Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
