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Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?
Garrison Keillor
Marrying
Sex
Free peanuts
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Prejudice
Speak
Mechanical instincts
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It is quite sad that we have pushed ourselves to the point in this country that when any public appointment is announced, most Nigerians would first research the tribe of the appointee before they research his academic qualifications and competence for the job!
Festus Keyamo
Sad
Pushed
Country
Public appointment
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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
Rainn Wilson
Believe
Grow
Here
Higher
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The point is we are borrowing, but we are borrowing sensibly. Seriously, no country develops with its own resources alone especially countries in Africa
John Mahama
Borrowing
Sensibly
Country
Develop
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When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.
Marie Curie
Considered
Direct
Discovered
Hospitals
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The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.
Marilyn Manson
Bedroom
Else
Everyone
Fog
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I finally reached the point where I knew I had to become involved or shut up.
Harvey Milk
Finally reached
Point
Involved
Shut up
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Hannah Arendt
Point
Dreams
Come true
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Lauren Bacall
All Your Life
Life
Point
Stopping
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You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen
Strongest man
World
Stands
Alone
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher
Judge people
Excellence
Distance
Traveled
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One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.
Nicky Oppenheimer
Diamond
Different
Likes
Maximum
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I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.
Rosa Parks
Around
Because
Been
Bus
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I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.
James McBride
Around
Blues
Control
God
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The Point of Power Is in the Present.
Jane Roberts
The point
Power
Present
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Mark Rothko
Only moved
Color relationships
Are missing
Point
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Let us encourage and empower them to hold on to their aspirations and dreams because every child has the potential to be the catalyst that transforms our society for the better and this is the point where we sow the seeds for a brighter future generation.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu
Encourage
Empower them
Their aspirations
Dreams
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Onyeka Onwenu
Mistakes
Human
Make you
Look
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The point is, a leader does what he thinks is right, not what he thinks the popular thing is.
Bill Maher
Leader does
What he thinks
Right
Popular
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As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.
Big Sean
More music
Really want
People
My show
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Overcoming authoritarianism starts with recognizing it. The attitude that those in authority are to be respected to the point of not daring to question their behavior, even when it involves wrong-doing, needs to be changed.
Mamphela Ramphele
Overcoming authoritarianism
Recognizing it
The attitude
Authority
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
Alain Badiou
World
See
One experiences
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Alan Watts
Medication
Discovery
Point
Life
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The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
Alexander McCall Smith
The point
About love
What
Not choose
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
Alfred North Whitehead
About zero
Use it
The operation
Daily life
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How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.
Alice Thomas Ellis
Vulgar
Portents
Prodiies
Religious
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I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.
Alice Hoffman
The point
Going forward
Easier than
Going back
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But it has occurred to me, on occasion, that our memories of our loved ones might not be the point. Maybe the point is their memories,all that they take away with them.
Anne Tyler
On occasion
Our memories
Loved ones
The point
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Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.
Anthony Kiedis
Adolescence
Fun time
Your life
You think
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What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
What
Point
Earth
Everyone else
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I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.
Cindy Crawford
Regrets
Lived
Life
Mistakes
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Sometimes when I say “I disagree,†I mean I think you’re wrong, but I don’t see the point of showing you how/why you’re wrong.
Adia Benton
I disagree
You're wrong
The point
Showing you
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The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
Eric Clapton
Point
Home
Family
Possible
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When you’ve learnt to love yourself so much to the point where everyone else’s love is just a compliment you can very well live without, you’ve won in life!
Chris Okagbue
Love yourself
So much
The point
A compliment
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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause
Gustav Mahler
Point
World
Life
Failure
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand
Pessimism
Point
Sincerity
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People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend
Jim Morrison
Fear
Death
Pain
Life
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I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point.
Joan Didion
I
Look
Reasons
Point
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Invest at the point of maximum pessimism.
John Templeton
Invest
Point
Maximum
Pessimism
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I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government
Jorge Luis Borges
Believe
Time
Free
Government
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It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure
Jules Verne
Better
Destination
Wish
Departure
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Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
Julia Cameron
Writing
Breathing
Learn
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If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?
Matt Damon
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People
Successful
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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
Michael Ondaatje
Perception
Write
View
Someone
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