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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. ↗

— James Ellroy

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The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad. ↗

— Keith Emerson

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You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back. ↗

— Alexander Turney Stewart

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As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions. ↗

— Luke Ford

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All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them. ↗

— George Foreman

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