"It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary."
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"Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear."
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"What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality."
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"I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old."
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"When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga."
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"surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain"
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"I think that I've had a very strange life."
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"Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play."
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"Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders."
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"With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat."
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"Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure."
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"Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person could ever have expected to hear in public were being heard all over the place."
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"Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises."
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"Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells."
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"There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled."
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"Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme," not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case."
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"A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power."
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"We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be."
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"Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all)."
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"People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me."
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