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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

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
Patricia Hewitt

Work, Through, Perfect

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

Death, Children, Him

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.
Drew Barrymore

Love, Person, Night

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen

Great, Trouble, Deal

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
Karl Marx

Strange, Obvious, Sight

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

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.
Swami Sivananda

Great, Struggle, Triumph

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Mind, Able

I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.
Lil Wayne

Humble, Around, Grateful

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
Saint Patrick

Deep, Before, Compassion

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
George Harrison

Life, Change, Yourself

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot

Jealousy, Passion, Fire

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

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali

Love, Good, Great

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
Abdul Kalam

Law, Action, Fast

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
Hillary Clinton

Decision, Try, Working

When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.
Hillary Clinton

Important, Person, Decision

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
Hillary Clinton

Political, Violence, Effort

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Happen, Last, Knock

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Him, Worry

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

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale

Fear, Done, Spirit

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Long, Short, Head

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Friendship, Happiness

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

America, Poor, Found

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.
Donald Trump

Strong, Mean, Around

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Men, Courage, Death

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide

Time, Long, Lose

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin

Future, Almost, Period

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