"The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that can also add to the glory of it."
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"This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?"
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"Global is a unifying bond for people. Once they get outside their own heads and their own communities and see themselves in a broader framework, it really changes their sense of what they can get done. It all adds up for us."
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"Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
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"And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."
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"I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it."
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"Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power."
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"To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold."
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"When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated."
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"Add in the good stuff - eventually it will crowd out the bad stuff."
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"I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me."
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"[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence."
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"Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old."
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"Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda."
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"There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better."
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"There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception."
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"The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars."
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"By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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