"Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation."
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"No one likes getting their nails done more than I do."
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"Nobody likes the bringer of bad news."
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"Nobody likes to be preached to."
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"I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not."
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"Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be."
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"The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear."
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"John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!"
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"I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller."
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"One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition."
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"The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons."
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"The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves."
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"I am someone who likes to stay positive."
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"But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."
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"Nobody likes not having freedom."
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"(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.)"
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". . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . ."
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"It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent."
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"There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,' but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, 'What a horror!'"
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"Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!"
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