O. Henry Quotes
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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When I grew up, I never – I wasn't allowed to go out. I missed my prom because I went to an AAU tournament and all that stuff. For me, it was basketball, basketball, basketball.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats. There were no trains. There were no communications. No Internet. No widespread knowledge. It will be a completely different world but a much better place in a hundred years.
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Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.
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Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
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When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sports. This dream of playing professional soccer probably wasn't the best track for me.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
