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“Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.”

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“Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.”

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“Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.”

Ifs Believe Ends Jobs Courses Interest Higher Tough Rate Circles Flight Description Investors Vicious Inflation Bankers Interest Rate Vicious Circles

Author:James Surowiecki

“Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity.”

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Author:Thomas G. Stemberg

“Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in a certain social situation and in a certain climate prevail, which qualities will awaken. The totalitarian system was masterful in how it managed to mobilize all the bad qualities.”

Men Certain Courses Social Quality Situation Depends Creatures Weak Climate Bad Qualities

Author:Judy Woodruff

“Of course, marketing and publicity does an amazing job of prepping everybody for that, but there's nothing like sitting there and experiencing the movie.”

Doe Jobs Courses Sitting Marketing Publicity Amazing Job

Author:Todd Lieberman

“Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.”

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Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.”

People Kind Courses Money Inheritance

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.”

Kind Made Courses Easy Deals Democratic China Luxury Officials Goods Dictatorship Democratic Society Luxury Goods

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!”

People World Courses This World Bored Stressed

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.”

People Firsts Remember Courses Sports Perfect Competition Gymnastics

Author:Nadia Comaneci

“Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.”

Mother Courses Approval Conventional

Author:Jack Kirby

“Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not!”

Thinking Heart Hands Lying Courses Nations Crosses Come Up Repeats Patriotism Flags Fourth July Pledge Hypocritical Outraged Frederick Douglas

Author:Julianne Malveaux

“Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.”

Film Courses Emotional Easier

Author:Gena Rowlands

“Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.”

Art Shows Form Courses Stage Band Music Is Second Best

Author:Tom Morello

“Of course, music is still a passion for me, and my new sort of career doing radio is also a passion, but definitely to be able to put a smile on someone's face. Or just waking up every day, trying to figure out how I can change a person's life for the better.”

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Author:Raheem Devaughn

“Of course, my family has been a big reason for me to come back, especially my son who loves the game of hockey - he was a big reason for me coming back.”

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Author:Mario Lemieux

“Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.”

Stills Courses Motto My Motto

Author:Ayumi Hamasaki

“Of course, my painting outfit has to be the focus of the shoot to promote a designer, or if I wear my own it will inspire someone's next collection!”

Focus Inspire Painting Designer

Author:Rita Ackermann

“Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.”

Courses Views Conscience Always Believe

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as religious consciousness; that borders on mysticism so closely that it's hard to know whether you qualify or not, or whether mysticism is artificially isolated when it is treated as a separate thing from experience. Obviously, mysticism can be a form of madness, but then consciousness can be a form of madness.”

Knows Kind Hard Form Courses Given Religious Consciousness Madness Treated Borders Mysticism Isolated

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.”

Thinking Bigs Courses Fire Particular Band Logic Following Tendencies Theme Parades Follow Through Arcades Arcade Fire

Author:Dan Bejar

“Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.”

Men Mind Courses

Author:Mark Twain

Source: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

“Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.”

Trying Matter Hard Choices Courses Our Lives Influence Circumstances Including Objectives Pursue Journalism Life Experience Reporters Topics

Author:Sheri Fink

“Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be asking a larger question: How do we change the norm, the larger context that people seem to accept as a given? Are we so thoroughly resigned to what "is" that we cannot even begin a serious conversation about how to create what ought to be?”

People Thinking Needs Should Seems School Courses Given Accepting Serious Ought Conversation Asking Neighborhood Trapped Norm Resigned

Author:Michelle Alexander

“Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.”

Character Courses Religious Tests Add Presidency

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.”

People Should Kind Self States Reason Political Courses United Accepting United States Perception China Prisoner Sweden Self Perception Political Prisoners Azerbaijan Detaining

Author:Julian Assange

“Of course, no-one thinks the EU is perfect. In recent years, the pace of social reform has slowed. But staying in offers the chance to rebuild a vision of Europe for workers, regardless of the passport they hold.”

Thinking Years Courses Social Chance Perfect Vision Offers Europe Workers Reform Staying Pace Passports Social Reform

Author:Frances O'Grady

“Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.”

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Author:John Polkinghorne

“Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.”

People Ifs Courses Successful Doors Approach Scare End Times Spend Time Intimidating

Author:Betty White

“Of course, none of this can happen for us until we give our lives back to God. We cannot know the joy or the life or the freedom of heart I've described until we surrender our lives to Jesus and surrender them totally... We turn, and give ourselves body, soul, and spirit back to God, asking him to cleanse our hearts and make them new. And he does. He gives us a new heart. And he comes to dwell there, in our hearts.”

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Author:John Eldredge

“Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.”

Pain Desire Courses Frustration

Author:Rod Stryker

“Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.”

People Ifs Mean Courses Willing Experiments

Author:Seth Lloyd

“Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.”

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Author:Eugene Ionesco

“Of course, now as a woman you can do so much, without being necessarily a rinpoche.”

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Author:Tenzin Palmo

“Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.”

Source: A River Runs Through It

“Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.”

Has Beens Courses Wonderful Grateful Be Grateful Wonderful Life

Author:Katherine Heigl

“Of course, on a job, you have a shared common interest in the fact that you're there making a movie or making a TV show, and that creates unification within a group. There has to be something more than just the work for that to continue on, for that friendship to continue on.”

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Author:Jamie Campbell Bower

“Of course, on every job there are moments where you're not having fun.”

Moments Jobs Courses Fun Having Fun

Author:Peter Jacobson

“Of course, one cannot get to know a country like the United States in short visits.”

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Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.”

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Author:David

“Of course, one of the most disturbing features is the fact that while we have had roughly a ten year pause in the arms race where a lot of good work was done, this has now come to an end. For what we are seeing at the present time are new developments in anti-missile weaponry, drones, and so on.”

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Author:Paul Virilio

“Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.”

Thinking World Way Courses Sex Process Information Civilization One Way Way Of Thinking Register

Author:Seth Lloyd

“Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

“Of course, our immigration system isn't broken. The enforcement of our immigration system is broken. The president Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, and several in the Republican Party are trying to break the immigration system. The system itself is not broken; it's just fine. It's just being ignored.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power as an extrinsic force is a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way.”

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Author:Charles D. Hayes

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