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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.


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PAUL DI FILIPPO Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Bleeding for a decade

For a decade,
We bleed like there is no hell but the earth
ARZUM UZUN We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Thomas and Ryan decided to go in a different direction. We appreciate the contribution they made to ...
KYLE WHITTINGHAM We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we...
LUCILLE BALL The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
JAY SAMIT Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
FIONA SHAW In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
We decided a long time ago that we were going to stay away from that.
JOE CAMP He has a great knowledge and understanding of what's going on in North County. We are really delight...
CHARLES GUTHRIE Never eat anything bigger than your ass.
E. LOCKHART We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva...
E. LOCKHART The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY For a long time we've had a very important collection of Monet works from every decade of his career...
JAMES CUNO For a long time we've had a very important collection of Monet works from every decade of his career...
JAMES CUNO It was intense at the start. We wanted to make sure that the events of last week were not forgotten,...
KWAME HARRIS We were thinking he was in a great position for the Peterson.
JOEL THOMAS We have a great new CEO. I've known him a decade and he understands broadcasting. He understands the...
MICHAEL EISNER We believe our reimbursement rates are fair for the services provided and we are disappointed that a...
BLUE CROSS This earth indeed is the very Body of God, and it is from this body that we are born, live, suffer, ...
RICHARD ROHR We had reached the end of the road, ... Our feelings for one another were unchanged but they had inc...
PETER TOWNSEND The great religions were not born in isolation from one another; they cannot survive in isolation fr...
BRUCE FEILER She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART What fun we had, how beautiful we were.
E. LOCKHART The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN We had a body shop together, but he decided he wanted to start making the power windows. Conversion ...
ROBBY WHITEHEAD In legal terms, we are not talking legal insanity, but he does suffer from mental illness.
DON SAMUEL Thomas Merton, another solitary, understood that. The beginning of freedom, he wrote, is not liberat...
GEORGE SHEEHAN We are of course sorry for Thomas because he made a great comeback in November but he pulled a thigh...
JO MASO A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I didn't realise the numbers were quite that good. To beat Thomas is a great win for me and I'm deli...
DAVID HOWELL In 1990, we said the '90s were going to be the decade of the individual.
DONALD MARRON We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
SIDNEY POITIER We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
SIDNEY POITIER Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, ...
FRANCO HARRIS We bought portraits and blazers for each of the champs. I remember Bill asking me how we were going ...
HARRY WELLS We finally decided we were going to play hard and not regret anything. We got it together and played...
JUAN PALACIOS Please, no Mozart. This festival has nothing to do with him. The whole world is going crazy about Mo...
FOLKERT UHDE We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a do...
TOM BROKAW The guys played well for Thomas. They were sad because they believed we could do better, but they di...
ROBERT BROWN We were asked to try to put together a grant package that would fund such a program, but we were tur...
PATRICK ALLEN Coming into the game we really decided we were not going to let these guys intimidate us. We did a g...
KYLE PEABODY The 1990s were the decade of mega-summits. I think we should make the next 10 years the decade of ac...
ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN Whether we like it or not,life is a temporal abode for all,hence let all our life's agendas be enclo...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
GUY DE MAUPASSANT we demonstrated that one in five elite athletes suffer from exercise-induced asthma.
GREAT BRITAIN I talked to the boss to tell him we were not going to work. He agreed we were not going to lose work...
JUAN GOMEZ We were going to try something different on him but then we decided we weren't going that route. We ...
DEAN DUQUETTE He knew that we would have got £100,000 more for him from Sheffield Wednesday so decided to let Kil...
JIM JEFFERIES The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essent...
TOM HANKS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD From the day we born, we are destined for great things but its depend on us either it can be real or...
AINA JAHIRAH It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer,...
COMPTON GAGE In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.
ERNIE WISE La tragedia no es glamurosa
E. LOCKHART Mi mente funciona de maneras misteriosas
E. LOCKHART Nuestro beso convierte el mundo en polvo
E. LOCKHART suffer. you could say it means endure, but thats not exactly right
E. LOCKHART Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right
E. LOCKHART Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.
E. LOCKHART We were 300 feet from landing when the pilot decided to abort and divert the flight.
EWEN MCKENZIE Thomas made birdie there and I thought, 'Here we go. It's down the stretch now'. But I've been in th...
HENNIE OTTO Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN What you call dirty and muddy place, is what a pig calls his palace
SOTONYE ANGA Neglect is a major reason for some of the most painful experiences we suffer in life.
SUNDAY ADELAJA In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can ...
DRAGOS BRATASANU Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
YAHYA JAMMEH We all suffer from dreams.
BERNARD CORNWELL For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't ...
NEIL TENNANT We should remember that they were not born with a lust for murdering Israelis.
AVI DICHTER For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it ...
BIBLE I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
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NICK HORNBY This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of...
BEN OKRI His august presence in the film was decided from day one, when we jointly decided to acquire the rem...
HARISH DAYANI We learn so many things from golf- how to suffer, for instance.
BRUCE LANSKY I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur...
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GARY F EVANS...

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THOMAS JEFFERSON Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
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