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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ↗

— Andre Gide

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I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

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I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous. ↗

— Shalom Harlow

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