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"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
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"We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them."
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"You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that."
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"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face."
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"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."
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"The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter."
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"We had to leave Australia to become international stars."
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"The real big stars only keep this up for about seven years."
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"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"
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"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."
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"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
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"Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."
Behavior
"Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."
Society
"Her own misery filled her heart-there was no room in it for other people's sorrow."
Emotion
"Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information."
Politics
"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James."No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."
Humor
"A really cultured woman, like a really cultured man, is all the simpler and the less obtrusive for her knowledge; it has made her see herself and her opinions in something like just proportions; she does not make it a pedestal from which she flatters herself that she commands a complete view of men and things, but makes it a point of observation from which to form a right estimate of herself. She neither spouts poetry nor quotes Cicero on slight provocation; not because she thinks that a sacrifice must be made to the prejudices of men, but because that mode of exhibiting her memory and Latinity does not present itself to her as edifying or graceful."
Culture
"You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing."
Faith
"Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."
Power
"My dear Mrs Casaubon," said Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.""Then it may be rescued and healed," said Dorothea."
Philosophy
"Author describes one character's optimism as, that quiet well-being which perhaps you and I have felt on a sunny afternoon when, in our brightest youth and health, life has opened a new vista for us, and long to-morrows of activity have stretched before us like a lovely plain which there was no need for hurrying to look at, because it was all our own."
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