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"The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual.'" »Winston Churchill
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"Do today, what you usually can't do and save the frequent and usual things for tomorrow." »Cristina Rose Schumacher
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"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual." »Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
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"Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could." »George Bernard Shaw
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"If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance." »James Baldwin
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"#3547. A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature." »California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
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"It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else." »Plutarch
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"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization." »Georges Clemenceau
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"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." »Jef Raskin
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"Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery." »Gore Vidal
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"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny." »James Fenimore Cooper
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"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always." »Katherine Anne Porter
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"Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
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"Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are." »Alford
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