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“The headlines are critically important. The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested.”
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“The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.”
Source : Sauce (1977) "Daddie's Sauce"
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“Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.”
Source : Karel Capek (2004). “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”, p.89, Penguin
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“Life is composed of different inventions.”
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“Remember that you will derive strength by reflecting that the saints yearn for you to join their ranks; desire to see you fight bravely, and that you behave like true knights in your encounters with the same adversities which they had to conquer, and that breathtaking joy is theirs and your eternal reward for having endured a few years of temporal pain. Every drop of earthly bitterness will be changed into an ocean of heavenly sweetness.”
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“In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 252), 1895.
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“I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.”
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“Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.”
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“Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?”
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“But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.”
