Miscellaneous Quotes
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If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.
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Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.
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There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.
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Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.
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There's two heads to every coin.
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Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
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Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
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The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.
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Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.
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The unlived life is not worth examining.
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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
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Everything is energy in motion.
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Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . .
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If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays the same. Do you sometimes feel that you are necessary but not sufficient?
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
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We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.
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A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.
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It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort
