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As book collectors know all too well: We only regret our economies, never our extravagances.


Michael Dirda

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ERIC HOFFER I guess we're collectors of things we like to keep our history.
FRANCES BURT We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
NELSON MANDELA We have a number of vulnerabilities in our economies.
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OVID No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase wi...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with...
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.
LEE SALEM Remember, our lives may flicker out any moment. Never live your life in regret or wallow in sorrow. ...
ZENG HAN JUN In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—tak...
ALAIN DE BOTTON And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into t...
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ROBERT E. LEE We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we n...
ED HOWE Mistakes and slips are a necessary evil part of our daily living. We learn through them all the time...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that con...
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JADA PINKETT SMITH We regret Jeff's decision to resign, as he has been a big part of our success for over eleven years,...
KENNETH LAY We regret Jeff's decision to resign, as he has been a big part of our success for over eleven years....
KENNETH LAY We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been cons...
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ANTHONY REINOSO We're all a bit bad. We all have things in our lives that bring us shame and regret. Things that hav...
ALICE BROADWAY Our real interest starts with our neighbors ... the future is about regional economies.
JEAN CHAREST To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit re...
DAVID WHYTE Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
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ANTHONY WEINER Let us know our differences! Let us understand our differences! Let us know and understand that we a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights.....
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too m...
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ELLEN CHURCH We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our pr...
MILAN KUNDERA Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world v...
CHRISTINA BALDWIN But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, ...
THOMAS PYNCHON When economies do well, stocks do well so people have higher prices to use as currency.
JOEL GOMBERG We are too weak to know the purpose of our duty let alone our life.
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SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR Our record isn't too big of a deal right now. We know what we have to do, and as a team we know we c...
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GARY LINEKER I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Our ability to further our inquiry with regard to Michael Edwards and with regard to Mr. Decker is b...
LARRY LEAKE What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
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CHARLES SAATCHI We don't live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people's exp...
NIKE THADDEUS I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it&#...
RANDY PAUSCH If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If we lose all of our wealth and are only left with love then, indeed, we shall never be poor.
STEPHEN RICHARDS As long as we keep our schedule, we do well.
MALESSA WING Everybody knows Ben's our go-to guy. But it feels good to know we're all doing our jobs, too.
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EMILEIGH MERCER We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and ...
T.S. ELIOT The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
JOSE MOURINHO We only care about our faults when we realize them.
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KYLEE MCARTHUR Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we ag...
LIONEL SHRIVER Our bullpen was poor. We walked too many guys and the only time we pitched well was when no body was...
DAN HARTLEB I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
LORD BYRON I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at...
LORD BYRON I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
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KATHY PARKER They have a lot of size. We haven't been too good on the road, as you know by our record.
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ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO Our season is on the line. It's in our hands and we'll only win if we leave it all on the field. We ...
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ABBIE RUSH I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much a...
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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I told them that our backs were up against the wall. I know we came in at only 0-3, but we needed to...
BOB PEPPELMAN Our contract with him is built on the fact that if we do well, he does well, too.
BOB STULL We regret any inconvenience this may have caused some of our customers.
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MICHAEL KORDA In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut...
MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
MICHAEL WICKETT I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split...
MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ...
MICHAEL BEHE My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm...
MICHAEL MCCAUL I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough f...
MICHAEL KORDA What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not...
MICHAEL VICK That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I...
MICHAEL VICK Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an ho...
MICHAEL ENDE In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It ...
MICHAEL KORDA Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into ab...
MICHAEL GREGER T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted ...
MICHAEL KORDA I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE I first went to Cambodia in 2002, primarily, as it turned out, to change diapers. My wife had work i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.
MICHAEL LANDES Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were...
MICHAEL BERGIN