"... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar."
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"It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme."
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"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!"
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"When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong."
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"Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it."
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"Wonderful, a death match on my first day behind bars. Some girls have all the luck"
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"Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking."
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"Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating."
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"I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry."
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"One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life."
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"Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills."
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"I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me."
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"A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature."
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"I didn't go to bars much. One drunken asshole was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it."
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"Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing."
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"I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something."
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"Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim."
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"In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment."
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"I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music."
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"The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation."
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