"The waist is a terrible thing to mind."
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"What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket."
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"I never Google myself. Only if I want to feel really terrible about myself would I do that."
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"How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it."
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"Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life."
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"That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman."
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"There are much more terrible things than physical injury."
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"War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered."
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"I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad."
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"I hate walking down a runway in really high heels. I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad."
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"Sagas wouldn't be interesting if terrible things didn't happen to the people in them."
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"Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it."
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"Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible."
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"Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile."
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"Nothing is terrible except fear itself."
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"There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead."
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"I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M."
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"It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place."
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"What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger."
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"Justice is a terrible but necessary thing."
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