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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Creativity
Robert Bresson

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I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.
World
Alexander Brome

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It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
Faces
Julie Burchill

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Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.
Competition
Daniel Burrus

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When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.
Injustice
Jane Welsh Carlyle

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I drink a lot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the f word.
Profanity
Helena Bonham Carter

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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Books - Reading
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
Giving
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
Death and Dying
Charles II

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Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
Uncategorised
Geoffrey Chaucer

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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Retirement
Lord Chesterfield

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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Winston Churchill

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The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
Dogs
Winston Churchill

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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Value
Marcus T. Cicero

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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Martyrdom
E. M. Cioran

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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Epitaphs
Irvin S. Cobb

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Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
Patriotism
George M. Cohan

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Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
Sin
Frank Moore Colby

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Gossip
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Sea
Joseph Conrad

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Words
Calvin Coolidge

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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Honor
Calvin Coolidge

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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Experts
William Cowper

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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
Flirting
Quentin Crisp

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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Death and Dying
Leonardo Da Vinci

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun