"The reality is that these cases are happening all the time. It's when they get out of control that you have a problem."
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"You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one."
"Benzedrine often helps a case run."
"The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English."
"Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason."
"In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary."
"The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot."
"I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought."
"Good luck - it's always ready to use in case."
"But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right."
"But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time."
"In case you didn't notice me, I'm the less attractive friend to the right."
"She was born in the Objective case."
"Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely."
"In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary."
"I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something."
"Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely."
"There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect."
"For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out."
"For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature."