"At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work."

-- Robert Burchfield

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“Ah, the relationships we get into just to get out of the ones we are not brave enough to say are over.”
“If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.”
“If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.”
“Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.”
“Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.”
“A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.”
“I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.”
“For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.”

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