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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
Rene Descartes

Men, Perfect, Rare

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
Venus Williams

Job, Big, Sister

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

Long, Present, Simply

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry Goldwater

Death, Fight, Impossible

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry

Today, Why, Rich

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
Andy Rooney

Smart, Frustrated, Dumb

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James A. Baldwin

Mind, Person, Country

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy

Work, Good, Men

Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.
Hillary Clinton

Important, Country, Large

There is no method but to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
Alexander Hamilton

Country, Support, Less

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Everything, Off

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Saint Augustine

Find, Perfection

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.
Hillary Clinton

Education, Parents, Working

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman

Great, Shall, Poem

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Jane Austen

Love, Moment, Lady

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.
Syd Barrett

Talk, Easy, Head

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell

History, Truth, Lies

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
Lewis Carroll

Good, Advice, She

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Justice, May, Show

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling

Fool, Woman, Needs

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Marriage, Good, Mistake

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Time, History, Made

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Death, Nothing, Advice

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle

Long, May, Winter

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
Douglas Adams

Mind, Thought, Fact

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness, May, Find

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens

Good, Words, Lips

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.
Helen Hayes

Good, Beautiful, Leaving

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung

History, Lives, Blood

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