“ The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ Governor Dean has no policy on Iraq evidently, except 'no.' 'No' is not a policy. ”
- John F. Kerry- Copy
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“ Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce. ”
- Claud Cockburn- Copy
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“ For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
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