#remains

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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Theories pass. The frog remains. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#pass #remains #theories

The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must. ↗

— Carl Van Vechten

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To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#experiment #extent #frontier #grow #happen

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#cannot #end #favorite #folks #i

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#die #life #middle #only #onward

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#after #birds #delight #feel #free

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#blow #brains #come #cut #go