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"You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose."
"Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past."
"...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them."
"The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown."
"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual"
"As usual, nature's imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep."
"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."
"Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be."
"Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way."
"The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future."
"All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about."
"The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'"
"A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle."
"I'll probably be wearing something fun and sexy as usual, but I can't say it will be the 'Catsuit.'"
"Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!"
"As we at all times criticise the Premier for his management of home affairs, call Mr Butler a fool for his Budget, find fault with Beecham's conducting, or Gielgud's performance, can we not, sometimes, say that our cricketers are not quite so brilliant as usual?"
"All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual."
"Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual."
"I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars."
"How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth."
