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"When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared."
"She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her, if she was whistling."
"Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found."
"I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy."
"Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book."
"Happiness is found when no one is looking"
"But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself"
"Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tension And not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it."
"I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels."
"I found my own way of doing things."
"Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market."
"I have found life so beautiful."
"All are presumed good till they are found at fault."
"In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you bee drowned."
"Love is not found in the market."
"It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found."
"I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible."
"Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad."
"It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them."
"If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable."
