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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ↗

— Michel Foucault

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We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that. ↗

— Lisa Murkowski

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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ↗

— Jane Austen

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The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so. ↗

— Howard Baker

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A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

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The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom. ↗

— Alfred Kastler

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I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

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