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Samuel Beckett Quotes

Samuel Beckett quote: "How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering..."

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

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It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen. Fred Upton
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Only cut off a buttock of each of those ladies,' said he,'and you'll fare extremely well; if you must go to it again, there will be the same entertainment a few days hence; heaven will accept of so charitable an action, and send you relief. Voltaire
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Hear me, I beg. We say thankee. Stephen King
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I don't mind admitting that I, too, have watched Hilton undergoing the sexual act. I phrase it as crudely as that because it was one of the least erotic such sequences I have ever seen. She seemed to know what was expected of her and to manifest some hard-won expertise, but I could almost have believed that she was drugged. At no point did her facial expression match even the simulacrum of lovemaking. Christopher Hitchens