"I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone."
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"Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out."
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"The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly."
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"Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone."
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"Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation."
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"He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead."
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"Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work."
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"When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn."
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"I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home."
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"I've gone through hell and back."
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"Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone."
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"A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out."
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"We, as humans, have actually developed a sense of social responsibility. We have gone beyond our basic instincts."
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"Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone."
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"Positano bites deep. It is a dream place that isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after you have gone."
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"When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him."
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"If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business."
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"Nothing in all Nature is more certain than the fact that no single thing or event can stand alone. It is attached to all that has gone before it, and it will remain attached to all that will follow it. It was born of some cause, and so it must be followed by some effect in an endless chain."
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"The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists, we don't have to have gone to the academy, or to the university to learn theory and to be a theorist of gender."
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"I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never."
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