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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#comparatively #cross #crossing #felt #had

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them. ↗

— Ram Dass

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One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity. ↗

— Hal David

#degree #fall #his #learn #lines

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ↗

— Josh Billings

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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book. ↗

— Iain Banks

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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. ↗

— Josh Billings

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