#almost

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cruelty #impulse #love #many #mischievous

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#always #certain #happy #life #making

The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#almost #biomedical #biotech #companies #congressional

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things. ↗

— John Irving

#almost #day #described #diary #drawing

The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script. ↗

— William L. Jenkins

#been #fictional #like #movie #mundane

Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property "without just compensation." The basic model of an unconstitutional "taking" would be if the government threw you out of your house. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#almost #also #any #basic #compensation

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#almost #anything #become #effort #hard

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #compared #distortion #facts #harmless

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school. ↗

— John Knowles

#anyone #attended #class #conceivably #crucial