"Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable."
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"The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!"
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"The more you complain the longer God lets you live"
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"Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them."
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"The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government."
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"Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear."
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"There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again."
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"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit."
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"Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious."
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"I'm a very serious person."
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"One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious."
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"Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life."
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"The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him."
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"If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct."
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"Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones."
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"Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want."
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"The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise from it. The most serious threat to our institutions comes from those who refuse to face the need for change. Liberalism becomes the protection for the far-sighted conservative."
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"It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter."
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"I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also."
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"If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food."
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