“ Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ”
- Malcolm Forbes- Copy
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“ Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
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“ The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion! ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
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“ Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life. ”
- Antoinette Bosco- Copy
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“ They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time. ”
- Sitting Bull- Copy
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“ Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling. ”
- Leonardo DiCaprio- Copy
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“ If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped. ”
- Don King- Copy
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“ Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease. ”
- Anthony Daniels- Copy
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“ Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat ”
- Hazrat Ali Ibn e Abi Talib- Copy
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“ A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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“ Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher. ”
- James Stephens- Copy
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“ Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
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“ My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness. ”
- Thomas Kyd- Copy
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“ Women agonize over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend's breast. ”
- Martha Weinman Lear- Copy
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“ These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ”
- Gilbert Highet- Copy
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“ Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words… ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
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“ Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness… ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ I don't see myself as an international megastar. I still put the rubbish out late at night-sometimes in only my underpants. Mind you, nowadays I have a good look around to make sure there is no one there. I just think this whole star thing is a gas and I think the neighbors think it's pretty funny as well… ”
- Damon Hill- Copy
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“ The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature — were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the moon that pulls the tides, and the moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomer… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others. There was once a man in Ispahan Ever and ever so long ago, And he had a head, the phrenologists said, That fitted him for a show. For his modesty's bump was so large a lump That its summit stood far above the wood Of his hair, like a mountain peak… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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