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But he is an Italian, was Umberto's sensible reply. He doesn't care if you break some law a little bit, as long as you wear beautiful shoes. Are you wearing beautiful shoes? Are you wearing the shoes I gave you?...principessa? I looked down at my flip-flops. I guess I'm toast.
Anne Fortier
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One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.
Martin Buber
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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Christopher Lasch
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If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply it is for your work alone to make answer.
Voltaire
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The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.
Julius Thomas Fraser
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A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it. People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
Anthony de Mello
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Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply.
Lorrie Moore
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My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
Wietse Venema
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
Alexandre Dumas
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Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
William Booth
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Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.
William Butler Yeats
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The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in medicine and the poem, I reply that they amount for me to nearly the same thing.
William Carlos Williams
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But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
William H. Seward
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Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?
Albert Einstein
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(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)The question is much too difficult for me.
Albert Einstein
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Who taught you all this, doctor? The reply came promptly: Suffering.
Albert Camus
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People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'
Alan Watts
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Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays. Otherwise, it departs.
Sufyan al-Thawri
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Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.
William Shakespeare
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I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: You have to fight fire with fire so that I could reply, That's funny-I always use water.
Howard Gossage
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When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'
Winston Churchill
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When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.
Winston Churchill
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God can say to His believers, 'I am divine and human,' and His believers can reply, 'Praise You, Lord. You are divine and human, and we are human and divine.'
Witness Lee
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