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Famous quotes containing the words sharp, statements, equivalent and/or existence:

    Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
    English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, no. 4321 (1732)

    There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.
    Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
    Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

    The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women; and every brave heart must treat society as a child, and never allow it to dictate.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)