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"Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts." »Jean Cocteau
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"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round." »James Corbett
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"But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely." »Charles Dickens
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"I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, 'Tadpoles Tadpoles is a winner' We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old." »Jean Kerr
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"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens." »Ethel Barrymore
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"Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so." »Mark Twain
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"If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before." »Mitchell Burgess
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"I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day" »David Grayson
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"You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year." »William Jefferson Clinton
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"When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." »Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
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"Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out." »Manley E. Rogers
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"The only way round is through." »Robert Frost
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"Round numbers are always false." »Samuel Johnson
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"The world only goes round by misunderstanding." »Charles Baudelaire
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"The world is round; it has no point." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"The world is round it has no point." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g
j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld." »Mark Twain, "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"
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"There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." »Mark Twain
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"The earth was made round so we would not see too far down the road." »Karen Blixen
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"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning." »George Baker
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"Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead." »Tommy Bolt
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"A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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"If you take flight from responsibility, please by a round-trip ticket because you will end up where you are now." »Chuck Sanderson
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"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round." »William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
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"When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides." »Wayne W Dyer
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"Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner." »W. Somerset Maugham
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