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No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen many times right here on our home planet? And how do we know it didn't? The truth is, nobody has looked.
Paul Davies

Life, Home, Truth

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.
Michael N. Castle

Education, School, After

My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.
Errol Morris

Start, Movie, Stuff

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
Alice Munro

Through, Learned, Personal

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
John Millington Synge

Poetry, Strong, Among

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.
Louise Slaughter

Job, Training, Military

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
Nicholson Baker

Music, Time, Poetry

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
William Barclay

Time, Good, Ways

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
Zane Grey

Life, Death, Living

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.
David Ricardo

Means, Fall, Lead

I'll be too old to face a difficult championship as the one in America will surely be.
Diego Maradona

America, Old, Difficult

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
Saul Williams

Poetry, Toward, Turning

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
Dennis Potter

Work, Tame, Improves

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.
Chuck Hagel

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
Victoria Beckham

Football, Goal, Main

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
Simon Wiesenthal

End, Knew, Naked

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
Philip Stanhope

Care, Person, Words

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.
Edward Carpenter

Love, Light, Earth

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
Harold Bloom

End, Human, Suffering

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.
Andrew Davies

Thought, Sense, Ask

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
Rebecca Harding Davis

Short, American, Memory

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth

Forget, Remember, Forgive

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook Jackson

Habits, Beware, Undoing

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Africa, South, Charge

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Work, Islam, Christian

Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.
Christine Gregoire

Free, Fighting, Against

Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front.
Marty Meehan

Work, Country, Problem

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
William Robertson Smith

Religion, Society, Him

I went to drama school in Paris and started doing theatre with a friend. Then I moved into movies and slowly but surely I got roles.
Jean Reno

Movies, School, Friend

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.
Judith Krantz

Life, Yourself, Writing

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