“ The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out. ”
- Margaret Drabble- Copy
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“ If the United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily. ”
- Rick Mercer- Copy
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“ The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
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“ The students of the '60s inevitably became the tenured professors that are so heavily with us today, trying to spawn a succession of look-alikes and feel-alikes. ”
- Suzanne Fields- Copy
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“ Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos. ”
- Joyce Grenfell- Copy
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“ Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent. ”
- St. Bridget of Sweden- Copy
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“ In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control. ”
- Hillel J. Einhorn- Copy
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“ If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
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“ Down went the owners — greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured. ”
- W. S. Gilbert- Copy
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“ Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
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“ They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. ”
- Luigi Barzini- Copy
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“ I came from a country where religious fundamentalists, including governmental authorities, denied my freedom to have thoughts that are different from their own. As a punishment, they demanded my execution by hanging. I was forced to leave my own country… ”
- Taslima Nasrin- Copy
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“ In Miami, there were only a couple thousand protesters in a city that is heavily Republican and includes a lot of right-wing terrorists. It was favorable territory for the police. They had the protesters outnumbered 10-1. ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
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“ After my last solo album in '93, I got heavily into the film-composing thing. I didn't really have much to say… I was going through a divorce at that point, and to be quite honest, I really wasn't in the mood for making a CD then. ”
- Stanley Clarke- Copy
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“ The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. ”
- Jerome Bruner- Copy
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“ It is not a gross disservice to remember Dan Rather's career as a long trail of heavily biased, corner-cutting, liberal-flacking and conservative-trashing journalism. It is also not incorrect to remember Rather as a Bush-loathing, Hillary-hailing, Fidel-flattering, Gorbachev-groveling, Saddam-sweet-talking insult to the ideals of objectivity and professionalism. ”
- Brent Bozell- Copy
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“ They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. ”
- Luigi Barzini- Copy
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“ When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes now wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, and moan the expense of many a vanished sight… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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