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"Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it."
"The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'"
"Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on."
"From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction."
"What came is gone forever every time"
"If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today."
"The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave."
"I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter."
"I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone."
"Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone."
"I must be gone and live, or stay and die."
"We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone."
"But love that comes too late, Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, To the great sender turns a sour offense, Crying, 'That's good that's gone."
"O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!"
"When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush."
"You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad?"
"The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed."
"An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone."
"If you work diligently... without saying to yourself beforehand, 'I want to make this or that,' if you work as though you were making a pair of shoes, without artistic preoccupation, you will not always find you do well. But the days you least expect it, you will find a subject which holds its own with the work of those who have gone before."
"There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains."
