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What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

~Alex Campbell

Topics: Becomes Beginning Capacity Constantly Enjoyment Eventually Exhausted Fulfillment Fully Material Now Only Pleasure Realize Seeking Too

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In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

~Alex Ferguson

Topics: Alcohol Becomes Body England English English Football Football Harmful Injury More Much Player Prefer Problem Rare Real Real Problem Relationship See Short Short Term Smoking Sportsman Susceptible Term Thing Weakens Which

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I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.

~Alex Haley

Topics: Any Becomes Books Children Fact Less Look Love Make Me More Others Parents Successful Than Way

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Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

~Alex Kapranos

Topics: Anything Becomes Certain Course Elitism Feels Hierarchy Immediately Mainstream Part Person Rejected Snobbery Type Which Who

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Here's what I'll say: some toys should be movies, and some toys should not be toys, and I'd like to believe we know the difference between those two things. The movies that work, work when there is a story there that you can take the toy out of, but when you put the toy in, it becomes an even more amazing experience for whatever reason.

~Alex Kurtzman

Topics: Amazing Amazing Experience Becomes Believe Between Difference Even Experience Here Know Like More Movies Out Put Reason Say Should Some Story Take Things Those Toy Toys Two Whatever Work You

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It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.

~Alex Tabarrok

Topics: About Am Becomes Better Bit Cancer China China And India Cure Did Discovered Educated Feel Great Happy India Innovative Less Little Little Bit More Neighbor Only Pretty Really Same Would I Am I Feel

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The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.

~Alexander Chee

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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

~Alexander Graham Bell

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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Becomes Each Each One Easier Get Ground Movies Off

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When you seek out - or seek to avoid - your own reflection, the modern city becomes a hall of mirrors: car windows, reflective walls, and plate glass are everywhere, transmitting a cacophony of different versions of you - this one too short, that one too wide, another one with a sickly color you've never seen before.

~Alexandra Kleeman

Topics: Another Avoid Becomes Before Car City Color Different Everywhere Glass Hall Mirrors Modern Never Out Own Plate Reflection Reflective Seek Seen Short Too Versions Walls Wide Windows You Your

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