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There are at least three moments a month when you are ready to leap across a conter or a front seat to strangle someone: the woman at France Telecom who won't give you the fax ribbons that are there on the counter in front of her because she can't find them on the computer inventory ... the bus driver who won't let an exhausted pregnant woman out the front door of the bus (you're suppose to exit from the rear) from sheer bloody-mindedness. ..
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The logic of nationalism always flows downhill, toward the gutter.
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There are at least three moments a month when you are ready to leap across a counter or a front seat to strangle someone: the woman at France Telecom who won't give you the fax ribbons that are there on the counter in front of her because she can't find them on the computer inventory ... the bus driver who won't let an exhausted pregnant woman out the front door of the bus (you're suppose to exit from the rear) from sheer bloody-mindedness...
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Soccer writers seemed as starved for entertainment as art critics, anything vaguely enjoyable gets promoted to the level of genius. ~ 219
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Accepting the eventual certainty of defeat in turn liberates you to take real joy in any small victory, that one good kick. /225
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In Paris restaurants can actually go into a kind of hibernation for years and awaken in a new generation: Laperouse, the famous swanky nineteenth-century spot, has, after a long stretch of being overlooked, just come back to life, and is a good place to eat again. Reading Olivier Todd's biography of Camus, you discover that the places where Camus went to dinner in the forties (Aux Charpentiers, Le Petit St. Benoit, Aux Assassins) are places..
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_Not really liking it much_ is a precondition of art criticism of all kinds. /275
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I suppose we couldn't realize, or could realize but couldn't accept, that the logic of business is not a logic in that sense. It's not only a narrow consideration of profits and losses, but a larger logic of, well, appetite. To buy something is to assert oneself, and to sell it, for whatever reason, is to collaborate in one's own diminishment. /279
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We had moved in a single November night from ideology to politics--from what you _want_ to what you do--with the usual disappointing results. /284
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J.-P. Quelin: 'The voluptuous cruelty of filling pages is what kills us.' /289
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Adam Gopnik |
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Quote by Robert, a garcon who accepted a 'fat envelope' to leave the Balzar: Anyway it is only in moments of crisis that we find lucidity about ourselves--though only after the crisis is over. Still, that's enough lucidity for anyone. Anyway, it is all the lucidity that life will give you. The crucial thing is that is was _our choice._ We made it. We _chose_ to leave. /293
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compassion, skepticism, and uncertainty rather than on dogma,
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Adam Gopnik |
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ask always what's the best real possibility, not what's the ultimate ideal imagining.
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Adam Gopnik |
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Lord of the world, must I and my ass eat at one crib?
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Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.
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Adam Ferguson |
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Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform.
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Adam Ferguson |
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Adam Ferguson |
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Feed the soul, starve the ego.
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Adam Goldstein |
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Iam kida the greatest Dj of all time.
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Adam Goldstein |
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There appear to be as many learning styles among prodigies as there are prodigies to express them.
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Adam Gopnik |
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Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.
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Adam Gopnik |
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The music industry has basically become an indie artist's dream.
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Adam Mardel |
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Sound as a burrow'd marmot he sleptOn the straw where he'd tumbled fully-dressed that night.
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Adam Mickiewicz |
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I've never said, 'I have diabetes, so I can't bust my ass on this play.'
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Adam Morrison |
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You have the magical combo of luck and sheer pigheadedness it takes to succeed in business.
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Adam Rakunas |
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You're working something, and I should have you arrested for impersonating a con man.
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Adam Rakunas |
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So it endsAnd no one wins.
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Adam Roberts |
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Death is the currency of power.
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Adam Roberts |
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Do not," Dakkar barked, "juxtapose yourself and myself in any sentence your mouth may form!
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Adam Roberts |
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You cannot trust this President to do what's right for the country
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Adam Schiff |
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There is nothing more corrosive to a democracy than the idea that there is no truth.
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Adam Schiff |
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I don't ever see any character as 100 percent good or 100 percent evil...
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Adam Silvera |
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Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.
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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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Adam Smith |
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Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.
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Adam Smith |
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The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.
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Adam Smith |
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the competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.
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Adam Smith |
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China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.
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Adam Smith |
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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Adam Smith |
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It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.
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Adam Smith |
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The great affair, we always find, is to get money.
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Adam Smith |
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Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.
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Adam Smith |
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Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
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Adam Smith |
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II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary.
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