"He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy."
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"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
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"Household life is crowded and dusty; life gone forth is wide open... Suppose I shave off my hair and beard, put on the ochre robe, and go forth from the home life into homelessness."
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"Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong."
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"There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!"
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"The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination."
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"We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable."
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"Mass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence."
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"I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail."
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"The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart."
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"A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone"
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"I have fled my country and gone to the heather."
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"George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies."
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"If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!"
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"Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?"
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"If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music."
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"She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift."
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"If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me."
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"So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to push up demand versus what would happen without it has been gigantic."
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"American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D."
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