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It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
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A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
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My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
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Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
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Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
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I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke. Sue Monk Kidd
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My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the '60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details. Wynter Gordon
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It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties. Wolfman Jack
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One of the reasons why Brooklyn didn't go to a (Spanish) school was because of the press attention, David Beckham
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Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. Anne Sexton
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I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.
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I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn. David Byrne
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I was a middle child. I grew up in Brooklyn with three sisters and a brother. You know what that means: everybody is constantly fighting with everybody and you are in the middle of the storm trying to make peace. That is your life. Making everybody work and play well together. Richard Parsons
brooklyn love wonderful
What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere. Arthur Schwartz
projects interest i-can
Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do. Al Pacino
projects
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected Byron Katie
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Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project. Ato Essandoh
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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go. Carlos Fuentes
projects suspect worthy
While many of the projects may have been worthy of consideration, the way they were funded makes them suspect in the public's mind, Roy Cooper
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We had been talking about doing more projects together.
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All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent. Christo
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When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life. Andy Goldsworthy
projects sorts
'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings. Damien Chazelle