#often

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. ↗

— Pindar

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Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated. ↗

— William Pollard

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A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem. ↗

— David Pratt

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The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Santa Fe is a great place which people don't get there often, but it's like a unique place. ↗

— Mick Ralphs

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