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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

~Edie Falco

Topics: Am Amount Embarrassing Fortune General Good Good Fortune Grateful Had Just Life My Life Profoundly Really

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I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

~Edie Falco

Topics: Comedy General Got Kind Know Like Must Something Special Talent Very Writer

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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

~Edmond De Goncourt

Topics: Any Bad General Impression Moral Picture Produces Safe Say Truth

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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Anxious Error General Loudest Most Popular Public Suppose Welfare

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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Community Direction Dress Effect End Follow Force Form General Give Inclination Legislature Public Sanction Sense Specific Technical True

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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Beyond Bow Could Direction Enemy Except General Hands Hit Range Regularly Skilled

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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

~Edmund White

Topics: Aids Gays General Had Longer Populace Privileged Seemed Sympathy Won 1970S

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Topics: Actions General Impulses Organized Our Preservation Race Ruled Self Serve

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Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

~Eduard Shevardnadze

Topics: Biggest Came Citizens Elections First Founded General Leader Organisation Secretary Union Which

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If we talk about art in general... all the works of art, each one of them could reflect a moment in the history of mankind, the time in which it was created.

~Eduardo Risso

Topics: About Art Could Created Each Each One General History Mankind Moment Reflect Talk The History Of Them Time Which Works

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