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en The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
  John Updike

en Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
  Leonard Cohen

en It elicits a moment in history. Being a New Yorker and living among immigrants, it really warms your heart that this opened doors for so many generations. It enabled so many opportunities not only for the people that were coming, but a future for their descendants.

en Anyone who believes that we can take the entire Internet and water it down so that it's good for only children is kidding themselves,
  Danni Ashe

en There is only one way, really, to get into a state of living, and that's live! There is no substitute for an all-out, over-the-ramparts, howling charge against life. That's living. Living does not consist of sitting in a temple in the shadows and getting rheumatism from the cold stones. Living is hot, it's fast, it's often brutal! It has a terrific gamut of emotional reactions.
If you are really willing to live, you first have to be willing to do anything that consists of living. Weird. But it's one of those awfully true things that you wonder why one has to say it. And yet it has to be said.
  L. Ron Hubbard

en Joey was a true New Yorker. Pex Tufvesson is called Mahoney in the demo scene. This honor today conveys what a monolith of talent he was.

en It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And it's also got a living culture which is exotic in the true sense of the word,

en There was a sense of self-doubt in India, within itself. People were not exactly as confident as you see them now. But that did not turn out to be true. Indians have come through unscathed, and they're able to protect their turf ... So now there's the sense that we want to learn from them, rather than that they'll wipe us out.

en In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

en Both players saw something different. I would have to agree ... that the only person who can really see straight down the line is the person who hit the ball. Paula believes what she believes and is a true competitor. It's not that she would want to be in someone's face. She just wants to make sure things are done right.

en The man is still living in 1979 and believes Iran represents a revolution more than just a state. He believes (verbally) attacking Israel, which was a key principal of the revolution, will serve Iranian interests in the region more than polite, rational policies.

en A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
  Demosthenes

en I just admired him so much. Everything he did he did well. He was a New Yorker, but he didn't act like a New Yorker.

en You better believe it's causing me a lot of trouble. If I didn't have a son, I wouldn't be living. Otherwise, I'd be on the street. No kidding.

en The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
  Raymond Chandler


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