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On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused…Nations work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe – at any rate for short periods – that running, jumping, and kicking a ball are tests of... George Orwell
Human relationships were strange. I mean, you were with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stopped. Then there was a short period when you weren't with anybody, then another woman arrived, and you ate with her and fucked her, and it all seemed so normal, as if you had been waiting just for her and she had been waiting for you. I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt... Charles Bukowski
You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time...the habit takes over. Zig Ziglar
Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail. Robertson Davies
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even..."
Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back. Kurt Vonnegut
Henry David Thoreau quote: "We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it..."
We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life. Henry David Thoreau
The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. Toni Morrison
I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those! Tim Meadows
If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple. Temple Grandin
Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the opportunity with the Phillies. Pedro Martinez
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. Anne Perry
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. Catherine Crowe
David Copperfield quote: "You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of..."
You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing. David Copperfield
Liv Tyler quote: "I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other..."
I think it's healthy for couples to be away from each other for short periods. Liv Tyler
People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television. Mary Hart

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