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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

~A. A. Milne

Topics: Almost Anyone Author Being Business Collect Fame Money State

Keywords: Buildings Connection Course Day Depends Every Every Day Height Houses I Tried Kinds Make New Oldest Once Our Staircase Standardization Standardized Step Steps Things Tried


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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

~A. E. Housman

Topics: Almost Draw Even Extinguish May Meaning Out Perfect Pleasure Poetry Sometimes Understanding Will

Keywords: Because Celebrity Just Just Because Mean Now Pastor Said Supposed Were You


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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!

~A. J. Cook

Topics: Act Again Almost Easy Get How Like Out Playing Remember Role Sudden Then Tossed Used You

Keywords: Breeds Crime Did Easier Times Today Youth


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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Almost Awakens Cannot Fact Hunger Insatiable Irrational Logic Satisfy Us

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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

~A. N. Wilson

Topics: Almost Booming Christ Church Clock College Feelings Great Hours Intense Interwoven Joys Keeping Lost Mad Me Memories New Night Occasions Oxford Rare Regrets Sends Sound Spend Times Tom Towers

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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Topics: Almost Been Development Even Half Human Lives Mostly Parts Population Poverty Primary Reasons Regions Rural Some State Unrest Violence World

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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Topics: Almost Almost All Awarded Bias Capital Capital Punishment Cases Courts Decide Difficult Economic Had Issue Me More President Punishment Social Surprise Tasks Were Which

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Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.

~A. Philip Randolph

Topics: Almost Almost All Clothing Cost Democratic Food High Interests Live Negroes Obvious Opposed Parties Republican Shelter Since Suffer Wages Workers

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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

~A. R. Rahman

Topics: About Almost Art Base Cooking Different Enjoying Food In My Opinion Like Motivation Music Opinion People Philosophy Really Running Seeing Serving Smile Them Think Way Whole I Think

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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

~A. S. Byatt

Topics: About Almost Almost Anything Anything Beasts Decisions Did Dragons Fear Four Girl Like Liked Little Little Girl Little Girls Making Moral Nice Other Princes Stories Teacher Tell Terror Than Whether

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