Jane Austen Quotes
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
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I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.
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Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.
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One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
