"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."
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"Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
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"Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals."
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"In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman."
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"There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice."
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"I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not."
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"Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information."
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"I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece."
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"The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty."
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"I would like a boyfriend. I'm a very happy person and it is the final, final piece of the puzzle. I'm looking for that shout-it-out-from-the-mountaintops, fall-in-love person."
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"I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days."
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"The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous."
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"You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit."
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"Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect."
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"God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!"
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"All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk."
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"'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces."
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"I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil."
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"Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."
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"I definitely have a piece of tape over my computer at home."
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