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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?' ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#campuses #career #combine #family #get

It all comes down to probable cause: If you think something's up, maybe you gotta take a look. ↗

— Ron Livingston

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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? ↗

— Stendhal

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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. ↗

— Rudolf Virchow

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Our society's need for escapism has always interested me. ↗

— David Lloyd

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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