Usual quotes
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"The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don’t have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated."
""We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?...""
"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."
"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
"Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both."
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"It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated."
"Hagrid, look what I’ve got for relatives!” Harry said furiously. “Look at the Dursleys!” “An excellent point,” said Professor Dumbledore. “My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I’m not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery. . . ."
"During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual."
"The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now."
"Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly."
"The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out."
"The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas."
"You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning."
"Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded."
"A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual."
"Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words."
"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
"(1) I have told you more than I know about osteoporosis. (2) What I have told you is subject to change without notice. (3) I hope I raised more questions than I have given answers. (4) In any case, as usual, a lot more work is necessary."
"[On public events attended by royalty:] It was the usual 'zoo tea.' You know, we eat - the others watch."
"There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom."
"History, sir, will tell lies as usual."
"We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us."
"Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight."
"Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else."
"When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous."
