Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
Samuel Beckett
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JOAN BAUER When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness. SARU SINGHAL Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that.... JOHN GREEN Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov... JOSS WHEDON He created us for adventure, not ease. MARY E. DEMUTH ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ... NATALIE GOLDBERG The fear of losing anything is the inability to prepare for the best. MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The story of the game was our inability to make shots. I didn't get a feel that we were out of our r... OLIVER PURNELL Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Life doesn't happen to you, it happens FROM you. 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ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that’s what I’ve been d... 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There's not an easy game left f... JOSH BECKETT Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host. BERNARD BECKETT We're going to need some luck. We have to have some people lose. JOSH BECKETT People absolutely embraced such a concept. CHERYL BECKETT It's weird seeing Luis in another uniform. I think he signed with the Marlins when he was like 4. JOSH BECKETT [Taking a lighter view of the] ILOVEYOU ... sorry or pleased that as far as I'm aware, I have not re... MARGARET BECKETT Innovation needs to be encouraged so that land managers can seize opportunities related to climate c... MARGARET BECKETT You can almost never say that a particular event is caused by climate change, MARGARET BECKETT I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so, MARGARET BECKETT The public utilities and the public services are among the people who have done the most preparatory... MARGARET BECKETT Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becomin... MARGARET BECKETT The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes. BERNARD BECKETT I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed. BERNARD BECKETT I haven't heard anything yet, ... Actually, I'm a little excited about it. JOSH BECKETT ... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear i... BERNARD BECKETT I've got a Minor League game on Friday. I just need to keep the intensity and stay focused and get o... JOSH BECKETT There are some problems remaining but what we have to be wary of is creating further problems oursel... MARGARET BECKETT You couldn't necessarily say, 'That hurricane, that storm, that flood only happened because of clima... MARGARET BECKETT I have to tell you that, sadly, this affectionate greeting contains a virus which has immobilized th... MARGARET BECKETT Bush agreed in Gleneagles that climate change was urgent. MARGARET BECKETT I am therefore announcing today our decision to set up a fundamental review of the agency. MARGARET BECKETT It is imperative that we find new ways to cooperate and develop a shared understanding of how the wo... MARGARET BECKETT Technology is essential to make the transition to a low-carbon economy and targets ... have a vital ... MARGARET BECKETT The focus of our agenda for this meeting is on energy, and on how we can make better use of technolo... MARGARET BECKETT sorry or pleased that as far as I'm aware, I have not received an e-mail saying 'I love you.' MARGARET BECKETT Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful ... BERNARD BECKETT And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to ... CHRIS BECKETT It was fine. I threw 48 pitches and that was about it. The numbers could have been better, but we'll... JOSH BECKETT Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory. BERNARD BECKETT I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in s... BERNARD BECKETT