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“If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.”
William S. Burroughs
“If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business”
Will Rogers
“Bitches. It's a very male-chauvinist word. I resent it deeply. A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it - that's possible.”
Barbra Streisand
“Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
Edward R. Murrow
“All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.”
Carson McCullers
“Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.”
Charley Reese
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”
Warren Buffett