"Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?"

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Richard Russo

#Expression Quotes #People Quotes #Use Quotes

“The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.”
“Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.”
“Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.”
“We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.”

Source : "Transcript: Pre-Spring Meetings Bloggers Teleconference with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim". www.worldbank.org. April 16, 2013.
“When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.”
“I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.”
“Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you as â€œmilitant.â€ The reason is clear: religion occupies a privileged place in our society. Attacking it is off-limits, although going after other supernatural or paranormal beliefs like ESP, homeopathy, or political worldviews is not. Accommodationism is not meant to defend science, which can stand on its own, but to show that in some way religion can still make credible claims about the world.”
“There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.”

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