"There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end."
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"She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men."
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"Gone! ...And you and I quite crestfallen."
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"Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion."
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"I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you."
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"If you look at Libya, I was deeply concerned about what would happen after Qaddafi was gone."
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"You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more."
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"The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals."
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"I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms."
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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."
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"The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well?"
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"I heard once that I'm considering having liposuction. And the reason I find that so ridiculous is I've gone out of my way to train really hard the last eight months. I want to prove you don't need surgery, you don't need steroids and you don't even need to diet. I've lost over a stone and that's all been down to good old-fashioned exercise. Once your metabolism gets going you can enjoy your life."
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""Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time."
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"Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses."
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"Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
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"My parents love it! They're on set. They make cameos in the movie. My father is a psycho-analyst and a professor at Harvard and he told me how many of the other professors at Harvard have gone and seen it. They love 'Hostel' and they love the thought behind it."
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"Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far."
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"When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands."
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"My forties are the best time I have ever gone through."
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"I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone."
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