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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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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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.
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Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I did not realize how broken I was until I saw how broken Mama was.
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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?
